and tripled since then in just about a year's time right so we're seeing there's a global impact von hernandez who's actually from the break free from plastic campaign he put it really brilliantly in sort of an interview he said quote this is crucial this is a crucial 1st step toward stopping the use of developing countries as a dumping grounds for the world's plastic ways especially those coming from rich nations so again this is really important because it kind of looks at how the entire world works when it comes to trash and what ends up on people shores and yeah and it shows it's like those of us who buy things like those of us in much richer countries that are much more like sort of quote unquote developed we get lots of we get a lot of this. and we buy a lot of this stuff and just sort of we got a minimum minute what extent has plastic actually impacted our environment well i can just run down there some of the data for your own network i mean plastic has been corrosive to our environment and specially the oceans so and as a point estimated 8300000000 tons of plastic has been produced si