Jay Sawyer from Chicago Explains the Negative Impact of Plastic Pollution
Jay Sawyer from Chicago Examines How Plastic Waste Affects Marine Wildlife
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
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
Other times, ingesting plastic may have simply weakened the animal or played no role in its death
Overall, in 82% of the cases, the animals died
Back in the 1980s, environmental activists warned of the harmful effects of six-pack rings ensnaring sea animals
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
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
According to him, in the North Atlantic, more than 80 percent of Cory’s shearwater fledglings contain plastics in their stomachs
98% of chicks sampled contained plastics and that the quantity of plastic being ingested was increasing over time
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