Plastic Bags: Plastic bags are mistaken as jellyfish to aquatic life such as sea turtles, and in turn ingested by them.
Plastic Candy Eggs: Plastic toy eggs meant for children can be mistaken for a food source for foraging aquatic life such as marine otters.
Plastic Jug: Large plastic containers can trap aquatic life
Plastic Forks: When plastic is introduced to coral the rate of deathly disease and speed of which toxins can spread is amplified.
Plastic Bottle Caps: These plastic bottle caps are ingested by sea birds, eventually taking up space in the stomach leading to death.
Plastic Fish Nets: Coral clusters are broken up due to plastic fishnets getting caught on coral branches.
Microplastics: Plastic travels up the aquatic food chain and exists in almost every aquatic being.
Plastic Candy Wrappers: Plastic wrappers can calcify within the stomach’s of whales and release toxins into the entire body.
Plastic Q-Tips: Plastics as small as q-tips can be seen intertwined with the death of aquatic animals.
Plastic Beer Ring: Beer rings can entrap sea life and have enough power and longevity to distort strong materials such as a sea turtle’s shell.
Our Oceans: Plastically Speaking
Our oceanic relationship is off-balance due to the human consumption of plastic. This is a caution to the existence of toxic plastic, in 10 forms and how it is evident in aquatic wildlife.
