The Ocean and the Plastic

The proliferation of plastic products in the last years has been extraordinary - quite simply we cannot now live without them. We are now producing nearly 300 million tons of plastic every year, half of which is for single use. More than 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into our oceans every year.

Plastic is cheap and incredibly versatile with properties that make it ideal for many applications. However, these qualities have also resulted in it becoming an environmental issue. We have developed a “disposable” lifestyle and estimates are that around 50% of plastic is used just once and thrown away.

Plastic is a valuable resource and plastic pollution is an unnecessary and unsustainable waste of that resource.

Source: www.plasticocean.org

Seapath do everything within our reach to not use plastic. As Seapath, you can also do not use plastic or recycled it.