The discovery of the fashionable urchin is also a grim reminder of how much plastic trash there is in the ocean. It’s expected that there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050. It’s estimated that right now there are an average of 46,000 pieces of plastic in every square mile of the ocean. Considering it takes hundreds, sometimes even a thousand years, for plastic to degrade, the plastic trash that ends up there will be there for a very long time unless people do more to help.
