Motivated by these staggering numbers, Luz created Sea Broom — an eco-friendly broom made from recycled plastic bottles. She told ABC4.com that 20 plastic bottles go into a single broom, which she ...

Every year, we throw 300 million tons of plastic waste, which ends up in rivers and oceans, and then enters into our bodies.

Boylan Slat, founder of The Ocean Cleanup, said 1% of the world’s rivers are responsible for about 80% of ocean pollution.