According to the Xinhua News Agency reported that the persecution of plastic pollution, every year there are millions of seabirds, 100,000 marine mammals, countless fish deaths.There are studies show that if the current situation ignored, by 2050, the ocean plastic The total amount of waste will exceed the total weight of the fish.
I find found that exposing animals because of eating plastic and died cases abound.
Death Trap: These animals are dead under plastic waste
Leatherback turtle
In September, a leatherback turtle was found in the Kailea Beach in the Catalan Autonomous Region of Spain. The leatherback turtle was killed when it was found. The turtle weighs 700 kilograms and is two meters long. This month found the second dead leatherback turtle in the area.
The turtle body was handed over to the authored autopsy of Barcelona, the expert analysis of the turtle's death is mainly due to eating the floating plastic in the sea, and the leather turtle to jellyfish for food.
whale:
In January, Norway found a whale's body on the beach, and the autopsy found that the whales were all plastic in their belly, and the largest piece of plastic was as long as two meters long. "Norwegian animal and botanist Lisley Wande said Is why the whale behaves abnormally and finally died on the beach.
In 2015, a whale was thrown into the sea of Scotland by the sea, and when the researchers dissected his body trying to explore the cause of death, it was surprisingly found that its stomach was filled with 4 kilograms of plastic waste. The dead whale is in good condition, except that the stomach is filled with all kinds of plastic waste, including garbage bags, plastic bags and fresh bags.
Researchers believe that whales are eating plastic bags because they are in the deep sea with sonar when the detection of plastic bags as a squid.
albatross:
In the Pacific Midway, there was a shocking event where people found thousands of albatrosses who died because of eating plastic waste.
Other seabirds
Scientists at the Science and Industrial Research Organization and the London Imperial College expect that 99 percent of the world's seabirds will eat plastic products by 2050. Studies show that less than 5 percent of seabirds are eating plastic in the 1960s, By 2010 this data reached 80%.
German media, albatross, seawall and seagull, they all died in their own stomach of plastic waste, while the seabirds to eat plastic, because the 'olfactory trap', plastic waste long floating in the sea, after the secretion of many dimethyl Thaw, and seabirds are being attracted by this particular smell.
Conclusion:
Statistical analysis indicates that marine litter pollution affects at least 267 species worldwide, and marine animals often misuse plastic waste as food, and large pieces of plastic waste are permanently stuck in the animal's esophagus, stomach, or necrotic organ , Died, or made the animals unable to eat until starved to death. In the anatomical fish and shrimp seabirds, scientists found that their body almost all contain plastic waste, it is difficult to find animals without eating plastic waste.