‘From the highest mountains to the deepest ocean trenches’: How ocean plastics pollute the Earth

One hundred million marine animals die each year from plastic waste alone. Photo: Getty

Humanity’s impact on the environment has never been more prominent, with a recent government report finding increasingly more severe weather events and less biodiversity.

But one environmental issue, recently named by the UN as one of the world’s biggest problems along with climate change, has flown under the radar.