100 Million Marine Animals Dies Each Year From Plastics

According to the National Library of Medicine, “Microplastics: A Real Global Threat for Environment and Food Safety: A State of the Art Review” research paper, “Nowadays, plastic is ubiquitous in all compartments of the environment (air, water and soil), especially due to the fact that the food packaging found on the market for food products such as dairy products, meat, fish or drinks, including mineral water, are made in large part from plastic.” It is even found in the deepest parts of the oceans.

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Plastics have begun to be identified as a threat to human health. In other parts of the planet, plastics have already started to cause massive amounts of death. Condor puts that figure shockingly high for marine animals. “100 million marine animals die each year from plastic waste alone,” its experts write.

The data are a reminder of how prevalent pollutants are. The WWF reports,” The rapid loss of species we are seeing today is estimated by experts to be between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate. These experts calculate that between 0.01 and 0.1% of all species will become extinct each year.” Plastics are by no means the largest cause of this. Pollution, both in the water and in the air, is the primary cause.

The concentration of plastics in the environment is certain to grow quickly. For financial and political reasons, none of the efforts to stop this have worked.

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