Plastic pollution in the ocean is a significant problem, with over 30 million bottles and cans thrown into the sea daily in Spain alone and over 1 million masks found in oceans this year. An organization called The Ocean Cleanup was founded in 2013 to develop extraction technologies to remove plastic already in the oceans and intercept more at rivers, having received over $31.5 million in donations to address this issue threatening wildlife such as the whale found with over 125 plastic items in its body.