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Plastic Bags on the Thames foreshore. Photo by Thames21 (www.thames21.org.uk). |
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Marine trash, mainly plastic, is killing more than a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year.Plastic bags, bottle tops and polystyrene foam coffee cups are often found in the stomachs of dead sea lions, dolphins, sea turtles and others.Australians used 3.92 billion plastic shopping bags per year.Nearly half a million plastic bags are collected on Clean Up Australia Day each year.It takes only four grocery shopping trips for an average Australian family to accumulate 60 plastic shopping bags.Plastic bags are produced from polymers derived from petroleum.Plastic Bags are not only bad for our sea animals but they're also made of fossil fuels and oils and take thousand of years to break down.Australians consume about 6.9 billion plastic bags each year and up to 80 million of these find their way into our streets, parks and waterways. As well as being visual pollution, plastic bags can have harmful effects on terrestrial and aquatic wildlife. The World Wide Fund for Nature estimates that 100,000 whales, seals, turtles and birds die every year as a result of plastic bags.A car can drive 115 metres on the amount of petroleum used to make one plastic bag.
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