Since a lot of plastic items we use are low cost and disposable, we create an awful lot of plastic trash. Hundreds of tons of plastic rubbish have been removed during the cleanup of Manila Bay and this is just along the seashore, up to 30 meters in the bottom of the bay, most likely just the tip of the iceberg of the plastic heap. Even the North Pacific Ocean is not spared by man’s plastic garbage. The great Pacific Garbage Patch is a giant lake of floating plastic garbage made up mostly of plastic bottles.

Mana-ay, E. (2019, September 16). Life-choking plastic garbage. Daily Guardian, pp. 6, 7.