Pictures of strangled dolphins, whales and tuna have been printed worldwide recently. Big fish with so much plastic in and around them, their organs simply suffocate. An Eco Watch report said 8,000,000 metric tons of plastic are dumped into the oceans each year.
Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and now England, tax plastic bags. When people had to pay, they starting using their own tote bags when shopping, so last year six billion plastic bags were taken out of circulation.
Every time you toss a plastic bag in the trash, say a sweet adios to Flipper. Fish aren’t trying to hurt us, yet we are actively torturing them.
If plastic pollution continues at the current rate, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050, and many of us might be alive to witness it.
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