Fill in the blanks by dragging and dropping words. Plastics are everywhere in our lives, L their polluting effects have gone unnoticed by many people (Kontrick, 2018). recycling rates for plastic waste have increased significantly around the world during the last 10 years, it has been estimated that around 1.15 to 2.41 million metric tons of plastic still enters oceans from rivers each year ("Great Pacific Garbage Patch," n.d.). , it is predicted that the amount of plastic entering our oceans will have doubled by 2025 (Dauvergne, 2018). There are five major accumulations of plastic waste in the world's oceans, the largest of these is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, was discovered by the oceanographer Charles Moore in 1997.