Imagine you've decided to take a trip to the shore after months of being cooped up inside your home. But once you get there, you find the beach is jam-packed - not with crowds of people defying social distancing guidelines, but with thousands of bags full of garbage, extending as far as the eye can see. Now imagine these piles of garbage - approximately five bags for every foot of beach - covering every coastline around the world. That's 8 million tons of plastic, or roughly the amount of plastic waste that flows from coastal nations into our oceans in a single year.
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