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 killing ocean animals.
According to the us environmental protection agency epa the use of single use plastic packaging has grown from 120 000 tons in 1960 to 12 700 000 tons in 2006.
Since it won t digest they can t pass it through and they are unable to eat anything else.
Remnants of cultures all.
Use your own cutlery food containers and keepcups when getting takeaway rather than using disposable alternatives.
90 percent of the fledglings had already ingested some.
Turning this tide starts at an individual level.
Eriksen knew that river plastics eventually become the ocean plastics that are now killing marine animals worldwide.
The usage of plastic packaging has skyrocketed over the past fifty years.
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The ocean supplies midway island with a constant stream of garbage.
Plastic pollution affects at least 700 marine species and some estimates suggest that at least 100 million marine mammals are killed each year by it.
After the trip he made it his mission to stem that flow ultimately founding with his wife anna cummins the 5 gyres institute a research and education organization named for the oceans large current systems.
Our ocean and the array of species that call it home are succumbing to the poison of plastic.
Animals who ingest large amounts of plastic end up with stomachs full of the stuff.
As he traveled.
Midway atoll a remote island situated on the edge of the great pacific garbage patch is covered with plastic debris swept.
However ocean garbage has been shown to kill many other animals in very similar ways.
It is hard to estimate exactly how many animals are affected by plastic in the oceans each year though.
A plastic shard piercing an intestine can kill a bird quickly.
Recycle everything you can.
For animals plastic is turning the ocean into a minefield.
Eventually the poor creatures starve to death.
The most significant overuse of plastic is plastic packaging.