According to @natgeo, 73% of beach litter is plastic, including bottles and bottle caps, wrappers, grocery bags, and filters from cigarette butts. Next time you go for a walk on the beach bring a garbage bag + gloves so you can do your part to clean up our coastlines.

90% of mainstream wet wipes are made with some form of plastic woven together with cotton. However, we can't be unequivocally sure of the extent of plastic in this common hygiene product because it isn't typically disclosed to consumers.

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For today's #plasticfact we're looking at the total amount of plastic created since it skyrocketed to popularity in the 1950s.

If the world continues on the same path, the amount of plastic dumped in our water ways is expect to double by 2025. We are on the verge of an irreversible tipping point according to a new study by researchers from Sweden, Norway and Germany, and our current waste management systems are no longer adequate to handle the amount of plastic waste consumer culture produces.

A plastic straw's biggest environmental  impact is its end-of-life disposal... but looking at its lifecycle as a whole, they are less harmful than popular alternatives that have sprung up in recent years.

Research completed by Royal Society for the Arts (RSA) found on average 49% of clothing made by Boohoo, Prettylittlething, Missguided and Asos were made of polyester, acrylic, nylon and elastane, with only 3% of those clothes containing recycled plastics.