Marine animals worldwide are ingesting plastic

Laysan Albatross fledgling, dead from ingesting plastic – Midway Atoll. [Photo: Chris Jordan]  Marine animals often cannot distinguish plastic from food and mistakenly ingest it. “Every creature in the ocean food chain, from the tiniest plankton to the largest whales, is consuming plastic.”  Capt. Charles Moore  

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Ingestion of plastic by marine animals is covered in the presentation:

MARINE POLLUTION – THE IMPACTS OF PLASTIC DEBRIS – 170316

All PDFs of the PowerPoint presentations are available under “Educational Material”.

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