It's a nice day to go out to a beach.
But unfortunately beaches are filled with plastic garbages.
In many countries plastic straws are being banned to save ocean.
On the contrary, awareness toward plastic garbages in Japan seems relatively low.
It is estimated that the weight of plastic garbages in ocean outweigh that of all fishes combined in the near future.

BBC and CNN are continuously covering this story. But I haven't seen such stories in Japanese TV.
Perhaps, this is due to people living in Tokyo area are not aware of this problem because beaches there are not scattered with the garbages.
This may be one of the problems of centralization in Japan.