Jay Sawyer from Chicago Explains the Negative Impact of Plastic Pollution

Jay Sawyer from Chicago Explains the Negative Impact of Plastic Pollution

Jay Sawyer from Chicago Examines How Plastic Waste Affects Marine Wildlife

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Jay Sawyer from Chicago feels that how severely the world’s plastic waste crisis is affecting marine wildlife isn’t fully understood in spite of decades of research and gruesome image of whales’ bellies filled with plastic and a turtle with a straw lodged in its nostril

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Talking about the report by Oceana, a conservation group, Sawyer illustrates some of what we know about how plastic affects sea turtles and marine mammals in United States waters

Sawyer Explains How Animals Die due to Plastic Pollution 

Jay Sawyer of Chicago notes that necropsies often showed that the animals had died from blockages or lacerations

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Other times, ingesting plastic may have simply weakened the animal or played no role in its death

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Overall, in 82% of the cases, the animals died

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Back in the 1980s, environmental activists warned of the harmful effects of six-pack rings ensnaring sea animals

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People began dutifully cutting them before disposing, and in 1994, the Environmental Protection Agency mandated that six-pack rings must be degradable, although the process may take months

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Besides, people have also been warned about releasing balloons as they can pose a serious threat to marine animals

He Went Through Various Studies and Explained the Negative Impact of Plastic Pollution

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According to him, in the North Atlantic, more than 80 percent of Cory’s shearwater fledglings contain plastics in their stomachs

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98% of chicks sampled contained plastics and that the quantity of plastic being ingested was increasing over time

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Jay Sawyer from Chicago concludes that the huge masses of plastic is floating in the oceans and other waste plastics washing up on the once beautifully clean beaches around the world

Thank You Jay Sawyer, Chicago