More than 1,800 marine animals from 40 species suffering from contact with plastics over the past decade

Oliver Milman @olliemilman

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/19/endangered-animals-get-entangled-plastics-riddle-us-oceans

Thu 19 Nov 202003.00ESTLast modified on Thu 19 Nov 202003.02EST

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Endangered marine mammals and sea turtles are routinely being entangled in or are swallowing pieces of plastic that now riddle the oceans off US coastlines, a new report has found.

The plastic-induced toll stretches from Florida, where a manatee was found dead with a stomach filled with plastic bags and straws, to Virginia where a sei whale died after swallowing a DVD case causing stomach lacerations, to California, where a juvenile elephant seal was discovered with a packing strap wrapped around its neck. In South Carolina, a loggerhead sea turtle defecated out almost 60 pieces of plastic while being rehabilitated.

In total there is evidence of…