Here some info from a couple of links from the ABC - have a listen to the audio if you're interested....
8 MILLION tonnes of plastics enter our oceans each and every year!
An equivalent of 16 shopping bags full of plastic rubbish for every metre of coastline on the planet!
Plastic pollutes the ocean, kills sea creatures and could ultimately affect our food security.
www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/plastic-increasing-in-the-worlde28099s-oceans/6163550 www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/plastic-oceans/6139774 Our garbage is killing the oceans - so try and do your bit to help! Try and choose to buy things that aren't wrapped in the stuff, take your own re-usable bags when you go shopping.
Don't litter, pick up the rubbish you see lying around you if possible.... this problem has happened in just one human generation - it's time to try and do something about it!
A plastic bag looks like a jellyfish to a turtle, broken down small bits of plastic look like food to a fish, drinking straws & party balloons are apparently the biggest killers of sea birds .......
