The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a patch of human-made products in the ocean so large that scientists cannot trawl up the patch of trash. Plastic accumulates in patches around the ocean surface, congealed by ocean convection currents.
This patch of garbage is so large that it is 4.5 times the size of Germany.
Excessive waste accumulation is not an exception in Singapore, where consumer waste is a massive culprit of marine plastic litter. International Coastal Cleanup Singapore (ICCS) is a community that organises annual beach and mangrove clean-ups on the island. In 2019, they reported that plastic bottles, straws, cups, plates, food wrappers, and bottle caps were among the most widely collected marine trash in Singapore last year.
There is a need to reduce consumption of plastic packaging.
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