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Plastic ending up in oceans

What happens when plastic ends up in the
ocean?
Plastic is a different than trash, with 46,000 pieces
of plastic per square mile.
Plastic does not biodegrade; instead it photo-
degrades with sunlight, breaking into smaller and
smaller pieces, those pieces are eaten by marine life
For every marine life there is, 6 pieces are with it 6:1
100,000 marine creatures a year die from plastic
entanglement and these are the ones found.
Approximately 1 million sea birds also die from
plastic.


Bibliography
http://thebeachsideresident.com/2013/10/surfrider
-news-and-events-october-2013/
http://www.takepart.com/oceans/plastic-pollution
http://www.rainharvest.co.za/2011/05/ocean-
pollution/
http://crochetcoralreef.org/about/great_pacific_gar
bage_patch.php
http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/43504