“Around 11 million tonnes of plastic enter our oceans yearly. This is equivalent to an entire garbage truck’s worth of plastic every minute,” said World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Global Plastics Policy Coordinator Mr. Huy Ho during a webinar on replicable models on marine plastic pollution monitoring held on 9 November 2021. “The economic damage of plastic to Earth’s marine ecosystems is estimated at USD13 billion, severely affecting 1,500 species,” Ho added.

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