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.
Plastic waste ocean animals.
Along with turtles 700 other sea life species are dying including fish seabirds and marine mammals said david barritt of network for animals nfa.
Even the deepest sea creatures like whales can t escape plastic pollution.
Here are some of the marine species most deeply impacted by plastic pollution.
Plastics that act as pollutants are categorized into micro meso or macro debris based on size.
Like many other marine animals sea turtles mistake plastic waste for a viable food source sometimes.
Humans invented plastic and animals are harmed by it.
They eat it they get caught in it or get sick because of it.
Plastic pollution occured so rapidly that animals were unable to adjust their behaviour around this new material.
Unlike some other kinds of waste plastic doesn t decompose.
These are used and discarded quickly.
Plastics are inexpensive and durable and as a result levels of plastic production by.
Plastic has only been mass produced since the 1940s but it s having a devastating impact on our oceans.
Many plastic products are single use items that are designed to be thrown out like water bottles or take out containers.