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Researchers from the University of Plymouth found the Seabin captured one marine organism for every 3.6 items of litter - about 13 organisms per day - including sand eels, brown shrimp and crabs.

Every year, more than eight million tons of plastic waste escapes into the world’s oceans, the equivalent of setting five garbage bags full of trash on every foot of coastline around the globe. What if there was a platform to stop ocean plastic and at the same time help alleviate poverty through a global recycling ecosystem? That is the ambitious goal of Plastic Bank and its founder David Katz, who will offer a keynote presentation at OPS 2022, Empowering the World to Stop Ocean Plastic.

Plastic Bank’s David Katz to Keynote OPS 2022