I don't know what the answer is, all I know is that not enough people seem to want to do something about it and so the problem gets worse, despite all the initiatives that have been around for many years to arrest the decline. Smells like a money making initiative to me.

Plastic is a massive issue, the oceans are in bad shape because of it, but it'll recover when humans are gone, won't be in our life time but it'll happen, and then the planet can begin to heal.