E-PLASTIC

In the Los Angeles area alone, 10 metric tons of plastic fragments—like grocery bags, straws and soda bottles—are carried into the Pacific Ocean every day.
1. Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century.
We use over 300 million tonnes of new plastic every year. Half of this we use just once and usually for less than 12 minutes. 8 million tonnes of plastic waste ends up in the ocean every year.
1. Over 600 species of marine life are known to suffer directly from plastic pollution including some on the IUCN red list list such as the Hawaiian monk seal, loggerhead turtle and sooty shearwater. Birds consume plastic, and an increasing number starve when their stomachs are full of plastic waste. Over 90% of seabirds worldwide have plastic pieces in their stomachs.
The E-Plastic is going to stop this problem, because it melts with the ocean water inasmuch as the materials used can be decomposed by the salt water
1. This new material are equally useful, rigid and resistant than plastic

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