Fish in the north pacific ingest 12 000 to 24 000 tons of plastic each year which can cause intestinal injury and death and transfers plastic up the food chain to bigger fish marine mammals and human seafood eaters.
Plastic harming ocean animals.
Plastic is polluting oceans all over the planet.
Upwards of 300 million tons of plastic are.
The ocean supplies midway island with a constant stream of garbage.
Thousands of animals from small finches to blue whales die grisly deaths from eating and getting caught in plastic.
Our ocean and the array of species that call it home are succumbing to the poison of plastic.
Humans invented plastic and animals are harmed by it.
The idea of sweeping the ocean has plenty of critics.
Remnants of cultures all.
They eat it they get caught in it or get sick because of it.
Examples abound from the gray whale that died after stranding near seattle in 2010 with more than 20 plastic bags a golf ball and other rubbish in its stomach to the harbor seal pup found dead on the scottish island of skye its intestines fouled by a small piece of plastic wrapper.
Plastic straws are one of the top 10 items found every year during ocean conservancy s international coastal cleanup plastic is not biodegradable instead the material eventually breaks down into tiny particles known as microplastics that are 5 millimeters or smaller in length making them difficult to clean or filter from the ocean.
The role plastic products play in the daily lives of people all over the world is interminable.
Plastic pollution occured so rapidly that animals were unable to adjust their behaviour around this new material.
We could throw statistics at you all day long e g.
Seals whales turtles and other animals are strangled by abandoned fishing gear or discarded six pack rings microplastics.
Some warn of ecological harm.
How the plastic you use is killing animals on one of the world s most remote islands 3 years ago.
For animals plastic is turning the ocean into a minefield from getting stuck in nets to eating plastic that they think is food creatures worldwide are dying from material we made.