Sentences with phrase «plastic sea animals»

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Millions of animals, especially sea life, dies each year from plastic pollution.

A traveling exhibit featuring massive, colorful sculptures of familiar ocean animals including reef fishes, sharks, octopus, penguins, sea lions and more made entirely of plastic marine debris removed from West Coast beaches.

The sculptures represent the first installment of a traveling exhibit, Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea, which illustrates how plastic pollution has become one of the gravest threats facing ocean and freshwater animals, while helping the public understand what they can do to be a part of the solution.

New studies have been showing that animals in the sea eat those plastic bits, commonly referred to as microplastics.

MEXICO: According to a new study thousands of individual animals from hundreds of marine species including every kind of sea turtle and around half of marine mammals have encountered plastic, glass, and other garbage in the ocean.

Stuffed animals come to life in these charming and old - fashioned tales with a memorable cast of characters: Lumphy, a buffalo, StingRay, a sea creature, and Plastic... whose classification is something of a mystery.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of sea animals, including sea turtles, stingrays, fish, and sharks, choke to death trying to ingest plastic rings floating throughout the ocean.

Plastic trash chokes and kills animals like sea turtles, whales, and sea birds, as animals think that the plastics are food.

Balloons Are No Solution In addition to boats, fishing lines, fishing hooks, and plastic bags can all kill or injure sea turtles — a fact that makes Kızılot's otherwise praiseworthy proposal seem lacking in basic understanding of how to protect the animals.

No wonder a hundred thousand sea animals and a million birds die each year due to plastic consumption.

It's easy for animals who eat jellyfish to mistake floating plastic bags for their prey of choice and animals like sea lions, seals, and otters run the risk of becoming tangled.

The exhibit illustrates various aspects of the global plastic pollution problem, including impacts on both land and sea, humans and animals, as well as the relationship between plastic, the petrochemical industry, fossil fuels, and climate change.