Here are some of the marine species most deeply impacted by plastic pollution.
Plastic waste ocean animals.
Plastic has only been mass produced since the 1940s but it s having a devastating impact on our oceans.
Even the deepest sea creatures like whales can t escape plastic pollution.
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.
Many plastic products are single use items that are designed to be thrown out like water bottles or take out containers.
Unlike some other kinds of waste plastic doesn t decompose.
Plastic bottles bags and microbeads in the earth s environment that adversely affects wildlife wildlife habitat and humans.
Plastics are inexpensive and durable and as a result levels of plastic production by.
Along with turtles 700 other sea life species are dying including fish seabirds and marine mammals said david barritt of network for animals nfa.
Plastics that act as pollutants are categorized into micro meso or macro debris based on size.
If this waste isn t properly disposed of or managed it can end up in the ocean.
These are used and discarded quickly.
Like many other marine animals sea turtles mistake plastic waste for a viable food source sometimes.
Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles e g.