Polluting Marine Life Animals

Introduction: Did you know that polluting our Marine life is killing animals!

Marine Life

By: Lorraine

Facts

Para 1) With 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometer of the world oceans killing one million seabirds per year.

Para 2) Did you know throwing plastic and rubbish is hurting our environment and polluting our marine life.

Para 3) Sea turtles are vulnerable to ocean pollution at all stages of life, from eggs to hatchlings to juveniles to adults. Pollutants include things like toxic metals, pcb's, petroleum products, and agricultural and industrial runoff of contaminants such as fertilizers, chemicals, nutrients, and untreated waste.

Para 4) Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic during the whole of the last century

Para 5) Whales die from consuming 20 square feet of plastic bags.

Para 6) Annually approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used plastic bags worldwide.More than 1 million bags are used every minute.

Para 7) Plastic is all around us.We use it to package food, bottle products or bag produce. It’s in our homes, our offices, our vehicles, our playgrounds; which unfortunately ends up in our waters.