Dia Mirza Instagram – • 500 billion plastic bags are used each year • 13 million tonnes of plastic leak into the ocean each year • 17 million barrels of oil used on plastic production each year • 1 million plastic bottles bought every minute (90% are not recycled) • 100,000 marine animals killed by plastics each year • 100 years for plastic to degrade in the environment • 90% of bottled water found to contain plastic particles • 83% of tap water found to contain plastic particles • 50% of consumer plastics are single use • 10% of all human-generated waste is plastic Solid waste management is everyone’s business. Ensuring effective and proper solid waste management is critical to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Our plastic waste left unmanaged, dumped or burned, harms human health, hurts the environment and climate and hinders economic growth. We can #ActNow and insist our governments implement ‘Extended Producers Responsibility’ and improve waste management systems. We cannot and must allow there to be more plastic than fish in our seas by 2050! We cannot and must not forget that our oceans are our planets lungs, regulating our climate and sustaining our lives. #BeatPlasticPollution #CleanSeas #SDGs #SustainableDevelopment Dress @ilovepero Photography @rohanshrestha Hair @francovallelonga Styling @shahriyar_adil & @mitalig_ Cover and Inside Story @reverie.india