The coastal shores have been littered with trash. …show more content…
Foamed plastic cups take about 50 years, Plastic beverage holder takes 400 years, disposable diapers take 450 years, plastic bottles take 450 years and a fishing line takes 600 years. There are the six pack ring plastic, plastic bags, plastic wrappers, etc. There have been cases of sea turtles mistaking a plastic bag for a jellyfish causing the result in the death of a marine animal’s life. Seals also ingest this harmful plastic. It causes intestinal injury and death ingesting about 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic each year. Seabirds will eat the bags which will fill up the stomach making less space for any other food to enter leading to starvation. Marine mammals like Hawaiian monk seals, who are an endangered species, get entangled in these death