• Question: What happens to plastic pollution in the ocean?

    Asked by snowpea to Imogen on 9 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by 449erbb39.
    • Photo: Imogen Napper

      Imogen Napper answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      What a great question!

      There are so many answers!

      Plastic pollution has so many bad consequences!

      Animals can get tangled or stuck in plastic litter and get damaged! Animals can also eat plastic, and this makes them really ill. Turtles can mistake plastic carrier bags as jelly fish 🙁 .

      Nasty chemicals can attach to plastic in the ocean. When animals like fish eat the plastic with the nasty chemicals attached to it, the nasty chemicals can get stored in their tissue! We eat many sea animals such as fish! This means there is a chance we are eating plastic and these nasty chemicals! YUCK!

      It is affecting other things such as tourism as well! Would you want to go to a beach that is full of rubbish!

      Can you think of any other ways it affects the ocean??

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