Where does our single-use plastic end up?
In March 2019, a cuvier beaked whale was found dead in Compostela Valley containing 40 kilos of garbage: 16 rice sacks, 4 banana plantation bags and multiple shopping bags.
Plastics have long lifespans and can travel from the uplands through rivers and downstream into our oceans, where marine animals accidentally mistake them for food, choke or get sick by ingesting them.
Plastics then find their way back to us, in less visible form (microplastics), when they are consumed by fish that we in turn eat.
The plastics we produce, consume and do not dispose properly pollute our lands, damage our oceans and our health.