8 MILLION tons of plastic garbage ends up in our oceans daily but it doesn’t all start on distant beaches. Plastic litter often begins on our own streets, in our own communities, where its first life as litter is as a visual blight on our neighborhoods and a hazard to local wildlife. It costs our communities money to pick it up and many items wash into our water systems and make their way into our rivers before they can be collected. These items may eventually make their way into the ocean to join billions of other pieces of plastic as a lasting global legacy of what we consume locally.