Debris on the beach
Human litter that is often dumped into the sea. Thousands of sea turtles die from eating or becoming entangled in this debris each year, including packing strip, balloons, pellets, bottles, vinyl films, and styrofoam.
Plastic Trash, particularly plastic bags thrown overboard from boats or dumped near beaches and swept out to sea, is eaten by turtles and becomes a deadly meal.
For example, leatherback turtles feed primarily on jellyfish
and their inability to distinguish between a floating plastic bag and a swimming
jellyfish in seawater has lead to deaths of many leatherbacks turtles.
Therefore, it is important that garbage is disposed of properly and not thrown
into the sea or littered on the beach, as tide will carry the rubbish out to
sea.
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