What is plastic pollution
Death by Plastics
Our beaches have an overwhelming amount of disposable plastics inhibiting the shores. Most plastics are not biodegradable and take a while braking down. Most plastics that end up in waterways and oceans cannot biodegrade and end up giving off toxins in the water. This kind of pollution is detrimental to our waterways and life threatening to aquatic animals.
Do Your Part
Plastics are not all harmful and can be useful. A reusable plastic bottle of water is a much better alternative than a single-use plastic bottle. Marine life is affected by any waste that they come in contact with for example turtles are dying from eating straws. Not only turtles but Humpback Whales are swallowing large amounts of plastics and waste which is leading to death.
Death by plastics
Large amount of whales are killed from plastics alone and many more from water pollution such as oil spills. Marine animals end up ingesting plastics that can cut them or puncture themselves or harmed by plastic being rapped around them harming them in various ways.
An example is soda can plastic that holds the cans together which can get stuck around a fish, or turtle, and/or otters neck causing suffering.