The Sea's Nightmare
By: Audrey Calvert
What harm can one plastic bag do? A lot of harm, because of plastic bags tons of animals and aquatic life become ill, hurt, or die from plastic bags and other trash will do all of this harm to the animals and aquatic life in the ocean. What could we do to stop this? Reuse plastic bags maybe, but you could make a difference if we reuse and recycle more.
How many sea creatures ingest plastic? 86% of sea turtles will ingest plastic worldwide. Micro plastic can ingested very easily by sea creatures, but not really land animals. Plastic can lead to more than 400 aquatic species ingesting plastic and other trash.
Why do so many aquatic life become ill, hurt, or die from plastic bags or other trash? It's because aquatic lie mistakenly will eat the trash and think it is food. The six pack rings can some how end up on sea turtles and shrink their body and she'll witch would harm the sea turtles.
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