Have you ever thought that the plastic garbage you carelessly dispose of on the streets could return to your stomachs?



It may sound like nonsense, but the fact is — according to recent research — street litter is swept by rainwater into rivers and seas, where the fish that you eat live.



Arifsyah Nasution, an oceans campaigner from the environmental organization Greenpeace Indonesia, said according to the research, the accumulation of plastic particles in fishes’ bodies has increased due to the increase in volume of plastic waste in oceans.



“Plastic pollution is very critical nowadays because the plastic particles have already entered the food chain,” Arifsyah told The Jakarta Post on Saturday, adding that Indonesia was second only to China as the largest contributor of plastic garbage in oceans every year.



Yearly, almost 1.3 million tons of plastic...