Animals are dying

Plastic is killing animals, and plants mainly in the aquatic life. According to reuseit.com "plastic pieces outweigh surface zooplankton in the Central North Pacific by a factor of 6-1". Zooplankton is one of the smallest living things in the ocean, and there are more pieces of plastic in the ocean. They are consuming the plastic, which is later passed on to whoever eats the plankton and eventually killing the consumer. Reuseit.com also states that of "500,000 albatross chicks born each year on Midway Atoll, about 200,000 die of starvation". Adult albatrosses mistake plastic trash for food and end up feeding it to their chicks. Animals do not know that plastic is harmful for their babies so they give it to their babies as food. Once the babies consume the plastic they eventually die because their stomach cannot take and cannot breakdown that kind of thing down. Plastic is the reason many animals are dying are yet we are not protecting them from the harm created by plastic. Plastic bags and bottles and hard to breakdown and this is creating a huge problem to marine animals. According to ecologycenter.edu about 100,000 animals such as dolphins, turtles whales, penguins are killed every year due to plastic bags. Most of these animals eat the plastic and this eventually leads to the animal’s death. The worst part about this is that once the animal dies it decomposes, but the plastic bag still lays around. Another victim then comes and eats the plastic again, and the same things happen to this creature. It just becomes a cycle in which more and more animals die. This is why I want to stop plastic consumption. I do not want more animals having to pay for the errors the humans are making.