Plastic And Ocean Animals
Plastic pollution occured so rapidly that animals were unable to adjust their behaviour around this new material.
Plastic and ocean animals. They eat it they get caught in it or get sick because of it. Plastic waste is littering our oceans and threatening the lives of millions of marine animals. An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic gets dumped into our oceans annually simultaneously contaminating our seas and harming marine life. Each year more than a million marine creatures and other birds and animals die from plastic trash.
An estimated 640 000 tonnes of the eight million tonnes of plastic that enters the oceans every year is so called ghost fishing equipment gear that s either deliberately jettisoned or washed from ships or shorelines. Plastic pollution poses one of the biggest known threats to the ocean influencing all ecosystems from beautiful coral reefs to abyssal trenches eventually accumulating in our own food. The other way that plastic pollution effects ocean mammals is through entanglement and one of the worst offenders here is abandoned fishing gear. 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.
Imagine being trapped inside a huge plastic bag. Seals whales dolphins seabirds fish crabs and many other sea animals are dying and becoming sick because of this deadly environmental concern. How plastic pollution impacts land animals 5 myths and truths about plastic pollution for more animal earth life vegan food health and recipe content published daily subscribe to the one. Humans invented plastic and animals are harmed by it.
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