The oceans are swilling in plastic, land tips are littered with it and the river banks of many countries are lined with all types of rubbish floating on the surface.
Some countries, of which the United States of America is one, tows it suburban waste out to sea on huge barges for dumping.
It contains a high percentage of plastic.
Ships crews plying the oceans toss their rubbish overboard.
The result is very polluted oceans and death for a lot of creatures that feed on or around them.
The toxic nature of plastic is not well recognised, especially by governments who do little or nothing to stop it from being manufactured and used.
Everything one buys these days has plastic wrapping or is associated with it in some way.
Food now comes to supermarkets in plastic bottles and wraps that have no end to their life.
The break down process is long and then it only breaks into ever smaller particles that never go away.
Tiny insects and animals feed on the coloured bits of rubbish thinking it is food.
It fills their guts and eventually kills them.
Sea birds are frequently documented with their young dead while the plastic they were fed is exposed in their skeletal and feather remains.
This is our planet and we are killing it by what we allow.
Bottled water, for instance, is rarely any different to ordinary tap water but consumers pay more for it than for petrol.
Plastic is, in effect, made from oil as too is petrol.
While the latter is causing massive pollution to the air we breathe the former is destroying the quality of the water we drink.
The question is can we change this situation before it gets any worse?