Environmentalists, governments, businesses and individuals attending the Volvo Ocean Race Hong Kong Ocean Summit were urged to come together and find ways to ban single-use plastics to halt their impact on the health of the planet’s oceans and ultimately human wellbeing. The plea came from Anders Jacobson a Bluewater top executive who pointed out that the planet’s reliance on plastic has left a legacy of polluted beaches, overflowing landfills and micro-plastic particles that have entered the water ecosystem and the marine and human food chains.
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