Every human activity, from farming to construction (and yes, shopping) affects the environment. Termed ‘ecological footprint’, it measures the demand that a nation’s consumption and waste m...Image by Mohamed Farag/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Dutch conceptual artist, Florentijn Hofman's playful floating duck sculpture called 'Spreading Joy Around the World’ arrived in Hong Kong in May 2013. The 16.5-metre high rubber duck, const...Image by Jessica Hromas/Getty Images
Replace the ducks with plastic flotsam and you get the drift. We all have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of plastic floating trash larger than the size of the US, di...Image by Courtesy- marinedebris.noaa.gov
Substantial amounts of marine debris from the patch washes ashore on the beaches of the 2.4 sq km long Midway Atoll. Of the 1.5 million Laysan albatrosses that inhabit Midway, nearly all ar...Image by Sylvain Cordier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
At least 8 million tonnes of plastic ends up in the oceans each year, the equivalent of a full garbage truck every minute. In the ocean, it can take hundreds of years to degrade and break d...Image by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images
Bales of plastic waste collected by fishermen from the Tyrrhenian Sea await recycling. As part of the ' Arcipelago Pulito ' project in Tuscany, fisherman bring the plastic they collect, ash...Image by Laura Lezza/Getty Images
Microplastic pollution arguably poses a bigger threat to life on land, according to UN Environment report. Sewage sludge - which contains upto 80 percent plastic particles - is often applie...Image by Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is looking into potential risks of plastic in drinking water after a new analysis by the State University of New York’s scientists (commissioned by journ...Image by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
Thermocol plates, discarded by a passersby after a free meal at a bhandara (religious food offering) float about in the Ganga river. Strewn garbage - entwined with plastic that collect arou...Image by Shashi Sharma/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
What can I do? Plastic is ubiquitous in our lives in the modern world. The wings of the plane you fly in uses carbon-fibre reinforced plastic, glass-fibre reinforced plastic and quartz-fibr...Image by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
