Special report: A Plastic Tide | #OceanRescue

More than eight million tonnes of plastic is thrown away each year and washed out to sea.

It takes centuries to break down. It's eaten by marine creatures. And it's in our food chain. Your seafood supper may have a synthetic garnish. Scientists just don't know what effects it has on our health.

Sky Ocean Rescue is doing something about it.

[suewilldig]

Brilliant that Sky is helping to draw attention to this incredibly important issue

[paytonbarkle]

i am 12, and i don't want to grow up with this, but i am to young to be heard, it's not fair, do your part, and we can fix this!

[debbiecomeau]

TREMENDOUSLY POWERFUL MESSAGE FOR HUMANITY

[mlmedia]

We need more people who think like that man

[MrC-yhyx]

In the early 1980's we lived on an island in the med and were constantly asking the beach tourists to politely take their rubbish with them and not to leave it on the beach when they left, we were often met with swearing and threats of violence ! There is the problem, out of sight out of mind we don't care ignorance. I applaud the actions now being taken, but it was happening 40yrs ago so it is now some undertaking,

[tabelinda]

My generation and my parents generation will always be remembered as the generation of greed the generation who broke the planet

[lmmt]

as an educator i am grappling with how to empower my students to be active participants in the change without the feeling of hopelessness

[ADCFproductions]

5 years later and still not enough is being done to change this

[Nevermore]

"When we clean our beaches we clean our hearts"

[rodfranklin]

Really a sad state of affairs. It's equally amazing that this video has been online 6.5 months as of Aug. 7, 2017, but has fewer than 26, 000 thousand views and only 28 comments!

[nancytrabanco]

I've been to India twice. They don't have rubbish disposal services: no rubbish bin (garbage can) collections, they have no land fill sites. They have no sewage system. Sadly most of their rubbish is disposed in the ocean. Sad but true. They have to address this.

[chaosdeceptions]

Really great film should be show to all in school everywhere

[luiss.n.]

Very informative and I agree, should be shown in schools everywhere.

[thelissoway]

I wish more people cared. Ive started my zero waste journey and I have cut out all plastic except for 3 or 4 things of food packaging which i am working on cutting out too. People are just lazy and dont want to eat at home and make things from scratch. They like the convience of purchasing and disposing

[livefromtheground]

While in vacation, I went snorkeling was amazed at the mess and where we were docked was supposed to be cleaner. It made me very sad and afraid!

[nickuk]

It is such an important issue and the view count is even more worrying, most people just do not care. I myself always do my bit, i recycle every little piece of plastic/cardboard and also combine every dog walk with a litter sweep in my area and the amount that i pick up is just criminal.

[ashokkonatham]

its good see this video and share this video and save the planet from the plastic

[moonchild]

Oh my Lord. Have mercy on us. We have got to do something huge to change. Oh Lord those poor bird's. Poor us.

[lindastevenson]

we have organised another beach clean Weymouth Beach Dog Walkers Dorset UK on Sunday 29th at 12 midday. We have a sea soup of plastic our fish, birds and animals eat everyday and so are we. #Keep Britain Tidy #Clean coast #two minute litter pick

[jheaziaa]

Lets help each other by saving plastic from the shoreline. In this pandemic time .. I lost my job .. So I decided to do coastal clean up everyday. So I can help by saving our mother earth .