The shocking extent of Earth's plastic crisis: 220 MILLION tonnes of waste are set to be generated this year - the equivalent of 20,000 Eiffel Towers
Sian Sutherland, Co-Founder of A Plastic Planet, said: 'After scientists have been ringing the alarm for decades it is now evident for all to see that plastic pollution has set humanity on the road to ecological and humanitarian disaster.
'We have a narrow window of opportunity this year to create a global Plastics Treaty that will protect not only our ocean, our air, our soil but our own children.'