If you or a loved one drank water this week, you may have ingested a credit card's worth of plastic.
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 | | |  | | ATTENTION, Kathleen — | | Plastic dumped into our oceans doesn't go away. Its carcinogenic components degrade into smaller pieces, pooling in all the waterways of our planet, and then the stomachs, and eventually the muscles, of nearly every living creature — putting ALL of us at risk. | | Exposure to these microplastics is unavoidable — so Greenpeace USA is calling on you to help us hold mega-corporate polluters to account for the endangerment of our oceans and our lives. Join the fight while there's still time by giving $10 by June 30. | | | | This couldn't be more urgent — the infiltration of our oceans with microplastics is putting all of us in harm's way. Here are the facts you need to know: | • Since 2000, the world has produced as much plastic as in all the preceding years combined, one-third of which leaks into natural ecosystems. | • In the United States, 94.4% of tap water samples contain plastic fibers, with an average of 9.6 fibers per liter. | • The average person consumes 1,769 pieces of plastic every week via water alone. | | Huge companies have valued profits over the planet for too long, and our planet is ENTITLED to compensation — starting with the ratification of a robust, legally binding global plastics treaty that addresses this crisis and holds corporations to account. | | But true justice will NEVER be won if we fail to reach our $25,000 goal by midnight on June 30. So please, Kathleen, don't wait: join the fight to save our oceans — and ourselves — by giving $10 or more before time runs out for us all. | | | | Thanks for fighting with us for the justice that our oceans deserve.
Kate Melges Senior Plastics Campaigner Greenpeace USA | | | | | | |
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