Earth Day 2018 On Sunday April 22, more than a billion people around the world will celebrate Earth Day. The movement began in 1970 and is credited with instigating many of our current environmental policies, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act. This year, Earth Day is dedicated to combating one of the ocean’s largest problems- plastic pollution. This issue hits close to home, as more than 8 MILLION TONS of plastic is dumped into the oceans every year. That’s similar to emptying a garbage