Classified German Report: Global Ocean Protection Measures Have Failed

Classified German Report: Global Ocean Protection Measures Have FailedThousands of tons of trash are thrown into the sea each year, endangering humans and wildlife. A classified German government report  indicates that efforts by the United Nations and the European Union to clean up our oceans have failed entirely.

Since the world's oceans are so massive, few people seem to have a problem with dumping waste into them. But plastics degrade at very a slow rate, and huge amounts of them are sloshing around in our oceans. Wildlife consumes small pieces causing many of them to die, since the plastics are full of poisons. And, as experts warn, we've reached a point where it's even getting dangerous for humans to consume seafood...