Plastic is one of the most slandered materials there is today, but what if you could recycle what is not being recycled instead of it ending up in seas and oceans? Every year, more than 8 million tons of plastic end up in the oceans, according to data from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) collected by the writer Nora Benito in an article published in the economic portal Byzness of El Periódico.