Plastic Pollution Gallery

Do your part in saving the planet for future generations by refusing to use enviromently unfriendly & dangerous disposable plastic.

Wildlife is severely afffected by disposable plastic pollution, once their ecosystem is contaminated, they suffer in all ways.

The amount of disposable plastic polluction near the Krichim Dam is staggering

Manilla Creek and it's inhabitants livelihood has been devastated by the overwelming amount of plastic pollution.

The Haitian Coast has almost been rendered unuseable by the sheer amounts of plastic pollution piling up on the beaches.

Yet another tragic example of the effects of dangerous disposable plastic pollution, the corpse of a bird that unknowingly ingested toxic plastic remenants.

The immense size and scale of the garbage patch islands floating in the Pacific Ocean that are contributed to with disposable plastic pollution.

A floating garbage patch floating in the Pacific Ocean. Notice the amount of disposable plastic pollution.

Every bottle pictured here in a disposable plastic bottle that must be collected by volunteers for disposal and recycling.

Disposable plastic (lack of) breakdown is one of the biggest issues here. The plastic particles will remain this way for hundreds of years making our environment hazardous.

A fish that has been opened to reveal the plastic pieces that have been ingested throughout it's life. Even with the bigger pieces removed, this fish still contains a heft amount of contaminants throughout its body.

A boater rowing through a virtual plastic ocean that will remain for genreations to come.

Children swimming in the Yamuna River which is showing the devastating effects of disposable plastic pollution

Your disposable platic pollution has far reaching consequences as this photo of a beach in Africa shows.

Plastic Soup - what is created when our disposable plastic pollution starts so crumble down in water, this "soup" has an expiration date hundreds of years into the future.

A tranquil water scene spoiled by the appearance of disposable plastic pollution.

Disposable plastic pollution isn't confined to developing countries as this picture of a polluted beach in the UK shows.

Unfortunately, out of sight, out of mind applies here as our disposable plastic pollution lies undewater, away from sight. However this plastic pollution is still an ecological hazard and will easily make its way into the ecosystem and foodchain

Plastic pollution in China - this is a world-wide problem.

A miscellany of soda caps, drink cartons, and plastic scraps sits at the edge of an Acapulco, Mexico, beach. Plastic debris, which can take 500 years to decompose.
Photo Source: by Bryan Mullennix/Getty Images, National Geographic.

Cape fur seal lying on rock, dead of suffocation from a plastic wire wound around its neck, South Africa.
©Martin Harvey; Gallo Images/Corbis.

It takes up to ten times more water to manufacture a bottle of water than actually ends up in the bottle. The water used in manufacturing must then be treated at a treatment facility, which requires energy and leads to even more pollution. Photo of a dead animal that was starved to death after eating plastic which didn´t pass through.

When will you stop using plastic? How will this impact on our future generations?

When will you stop using plastic? How will this impact on our future generations?

Seven sperm whales were recently found stranded on a Mediterranean beach. The toxics absorbed and stored in their fat (including mercury, lead, and cadmium) were released as the whales became dehydrated. Necropsies also revealed plastic bags in their stomachs.

Turtle with a plastic band lodged whilst young, the turtle grew around it.

The majority of water consumed from plastic bottles is done by people on the move. The main reason this is extra detrimental to the eco system is that there is no way to recycle in most public places. These bottles are thrown in the trash or even on the side of the road or sidewalks in the form of litter. The ones that do make it to the landfills not only take up spaces, but leak toxins into the ground during their long degradation times. Where previously in 95 the rate of recycling was at about 53 percent, it has now fallen to 17 percent. If more are recycled, the domestic agencies that handle these tasks will have a firmer market as opposed to their current state. They are in dire straights as currently the majority of plastic is exported to China for mass processing.

Ethylene oxide, xylene and benzene are some of the chemical toxins present in plastic that has miserable effects on the environment.

Plastic pollution - need we say more?

How long do you think these plastic containers would of been used for? Yet they take 100´s of years to break down leaving toxic chemicals in our environment.

Plastic sand! Middle Beach on Lord Howe Island may be one of Australia's "cleanest". But as this photo shows, particles of plastic debris wash up on every high tide.

A dead albatross chick photographed on Midway Atoll, a strip of sand and coral in the North Pacific. These are the actual stomach contents of this baby bird in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries. All over the Pacific albatross chicks are fed junk by their parents, who mistake pieces of plastic for food and bring them back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year 100,000 baby birds die from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
(Source: Chris Jordan, www.chrisjordan.com)

Seal caught in a plastic ring

Marine pollution of plastic bags floating on ocean surface. Many species, including Sea Turtles, mistake floating plastic bags for jellyfish and will die as a result of swallowing them.

Turtle swimming around in plastic.

Authorities in Burma's main city forbid production and sale of plastic bags in an effort to cut pollution from non-degradable waste.

Mumbai plastic bag pollution.

Walking along the boardwalk in Mumbai, the mangroves along the water´s edge are awash with plastic.

A picture tells a thousand words - stop plastic

Environmentalists around the world agree, plastic bags are choking our landfills and polluting our seas, coasts and beaches.

The ocean dumps literally tons of plastic trash on Hawaii’s Kamilo Beach each year.
Credit: Amanda Rose Martinez

The exact quantities of plastics, including microplastics entering or forming in the oceans from the land-based discharge-but also from shipping and fishing boats- is unknown.
Photo Credit: British Antarctic Survey

There is no realistic way of cleaning the oceans, advocates say the key is to keep more plastic out by raising awareness and, wherever possible, challenging a throwaway culture that uses non-biodegradable materials for disposable products.
Photo Credit: AP/5 Gyres

We all need to be awakened, stop throwing your plastic everywhere

This is happening all over the planet, it´s not going to go away just because you ignore it

You have to wonder how this could be cleaned up and then where would they put the plastic?

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