#not benthic marine litter
The images below shows contents of a juvenile green turtle
The ingested marine debris includes pieces of plastic bag and broken-down plastics. The shocking photo is a reminder of the environmental consequences of plastic pollution as the world’s oceans are becoming Earth’s largest wastedumps.
According to a report published by The California Academy of Science and OceanRevolution.org, as much as “80 percent of the waste that accumulates on land, shorelines, the ocean surface, or seabed is plastic.”
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