1. The impact of marine debris

2. Marine Debris -Courtesy to Conservation Science Institute; Altered Ocean; Blue Planet Society

3. "The United Nations has turned its attention to the oceans for World Environment Day, and one of the main evildoers is a familiar one - plastic. Marine trash, mainly plastic, is killing more than a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year.” - Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations, 2004

4. Plastic Trash Vortex There are actually 46,000 pieces of plastic litter floating in every square mile of ocean. - UNEP

5. Inside the North Pacific Gyre, there is a massive accumulation of plastic garbage known as “Plastic Soup”, “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch”, or “The Pacific Trash Vortex”. About 20 percent of the plastic in the oceans comes from ships or offshore platforms; the rest is blown or washed off the land. - Courtesy to Michael Graham Richard, Gatineau, Canada

6. Ingestion of plastics

7. Albatross chick - gut full of plastic! - 90% of albatross chicks on Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean had plastic in their throats

8. What an albatross ate

9. Dead Turtle found in Australia, with guts choked with marine trash

10. Entanglement of marine animals -Courtesy to UNEP

11. 237 In 2007, ICC participants found 237 entangled animals. The percentage of each type of animal entangled : Birds ~ 35 percent Fish ~ 27 percent Invertebrates ~ 20 percent Mammals ~ 13 percent Reptiles ~ 5 percent Amphibians ~ < 1 percent

12. Badly entangled flukes of a humpback whale – United States

13. A young Grey Seal entangled in a scrap of trawl net. - Sable Island, Canada

14. Freeing Horseshoe crabs from gill nets at - Mandai, Singapore

15. Crabs entangled by fishing nets at - Lazarus Island, Singapore

16. The abrasion from movement of the nets injure/kill the polyps. And injured parts of corals get overgrown with algae/other organisms very fast. – Lazarus Island, Singapore

17. By not littering and picking up litter you see, you may be saving the life of a marine mammal. Be aware of the packaging on products you purchase; opt for products with less packaging. Prevent litter! Packaging awareness!