According to a report in the journal Science, published in 2015, about 192 countries generated 275 million tons of plastic waste; of these, 12.7 million tons end up in our oceans.
Carlos Green Ruiz, a researcher at the Institute of Marine Science and Limnology (ICMyL) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mazatlán, said that during the holiday periods more solid waste is produced on beaches, which is then dragged into our oceans by waves.
The problem is that when the garbage is in the aquatic environment fauna confuses it with food, and is a victim of . . .
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