These are used and discarded quickly.
Plastic waste ocean animals.
If this waste isn t properly disposed of or managed it can end up in the ocean.
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.
Even the deepest sea creatures like whales can t escape plastic pollution.
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 that act as pollutants are categorized into micro meso or macro debris based on size.
Here are some of the marine species most deeply impacted by plastic pollution.
Humans invented plastic and animals are harmed by it.
Along with turtles 700 other sea life species are dying including fish seabirds and marine mammals said david barritt of network for animals nfa.
Many plastic products are single use items that are designed to be thrown out like water bottles or take out containers.
Plastic has only been mass produced since the 1940s but it s having a devastating impact on our oceans.
Like many other marine animals sea turtles mistake plastic waste for a viable food source sometimes.