More than 200 Nations promise to stop ocean plastic waste

[Fixer]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-envi ... SKBN1E02F7

This is one that has been showing up on the radar a lot recently. The plastic waste in our oceans and ecosystems has been increasing of late. Especially with recent shower products that used plastic microbeads, now since banned by the UK government, since they they were showing up on our beaches.

Even halting the current flow of plastic into the seas leaves huge islands of rubbish floating out there,

[Admiral X]

Yeah, be nice if people stopped throwing shit into rivers and oceans.

[Beastro]

I'd like to think this is something that is universally supported and non-partisan in the least but with billions on this planet I realize now more than ever in our history people are capable of anything.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

I think that current events have proved that, in this country at least, there is no such thing as a "non-partisan issue" anymore. =/

[Fixer]

The BBC has compiled some data on the plastic problem here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42264788

They also had a Blue Planet segment which showed how seabirds such as the Albatross were consuming and dying of plastic waste.