Banks Called Out For Their Role In Financing Plastic Pollution

Mike Scott, Forbes Plastics & Pollution

Banks Called Out For Their Role In Financing Plastic Pollution
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However, the problem has not gone away – in many ways, it has worsened – and that pressure will return with a vengeance in 2021. Each minute, a truck full of plastics ends up in our oceans and around 1 million marine birds and 100,000 marine animals die each year from eating plastic. Plastic packaging pollution is now found from the deepest oceans to the top of Mount Everest and the average person eats about 70,000 particles of microplastic a year.

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