By 2025, our seas may be filled with one ton of plastic for every three tons of fish

Dow Chemical and the Ocean Conservancy explain why they have formed an unlikely alliance to prevent plastic from choking the world's oceans

Roughly 8m tons of discarded plastic washes down our rivers and blows across our beaches into the ocean every year. Left unchecked, there may be one ton of plastic for every three tons of fish in the sea within ten years. Most of this plastic breaks into smaller pieces in the ocean, where animals, from shrimp to whales, readily confuse it with food.

Nobody wants plastic to pollute the environment and enter the food chain; it is not part of anybody's plan.