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Gird your loins for a new, frightening report future-of-plastics released by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Your children and grandchildren will face more plastic in the oceans than fish, according to the Guardian.

Clean up your act, cries out Dame Ellen MacArthur, a record-breaking sailor. She also claims that in just 35 years, new plastics will swallow 20 percent of the world's oil productions. Now that is 5 percent more than what we see today.

Every year "at least 8 million tonnes of plastics leak into the ocean - which is equivalent to dumping the contents of one garbage truck into the ocean every minute. If no action is taken, this is expected to increase to two per minute by 2030 and four per minute by 2050," says the report.

People just keep demanding more and more plastics. While only 5 percent of them are recycled properly, 40 percent finish in a landfill and one-third finally land up in ecosystems like oceans.

While the production of plastic is 20 times more than that seen in 1964, the 2014 counts will touch 311 million tonnes, and will double in the next two decades. By 2050, it would be four times the amount seen today.

Being very functional, at a low price and production cost, plastics are very popular.

"In a business-as-usual scenario, the ocean is expected to contain one tonne of plastic for every three tonnes of fish by 2025, and by 2050, more plastics than fish [by weight]," reads the report.