of mind, but this is really happening. plastics that we throw away every day, the straws, baht bottles, the bags, they'll come back and haunt in a big way. >> this is a beach in the cominute can republic. that's the ocean but you can't see the water. right now tons of plastic waste are washing up on the shore quicker than volunteers be able to haul it away. that's just one beach. >> at least 8 million tons of plastic goes into our oceans every year. this according to word economic forum. and that's like dumping the contents of one garbage truck into the ocean every minute. the united nations predicts that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. >> we've been saying this for years, but the plastic keeps coming. much of it collecting in garbage patches like what you see here, huge islands of plastic underneath the ocean, being swept along in the ocean currents. they're about 80,000 tons of plastic in our oceans.