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Yes, Keith, it is a serious threat to marine life as well as a threat to our coastline. There is so much wrong with our modernised civilisation that it is hard to know where to start.
Sewage could be reused in biomass generators, creating green energy and jobs.
Plastic bags and bottles should be banned. There are alternatives, and plastic waste is a huge problem to the marine environment as well as to our beaches. There was such an uprising about the oil spill in the Gulf, but at the end of the day all that oil would have become pollution elsewhere, be it CO2, waste oil or plastics. It was only that it was so concentrated that it became a big media issue, and because crude oil is ugly and visible but airbourne pollution is all but invisible. Oil = pollution, in whatever form it takes. And before you ask, yes I do drive a car. But I try to keep its use to a minimum and if there were alternatives to oil, I would use them. But there aren't. The big money in oil makes sure of that.