Ten statistics on global plastic addiction and its consequences

Plastic waste is one of the main reasons of aquatic pollution, as the number of marine mammals that die each year from ingesting plastic or becoming entangled in debris has reached 100,000. © FRANCE 24

The UN’s annual World Environment Day on Monday comes days after negotiations on an international treaty against plastic pollution concluded Friday in Paris with 170 nations agreeing to produce a first draft of an accord by November. FRANCE 24 takes a look at the scale of the problem and its implications through 10 crucial statistics.