How are people using plastic to destroy nature?
The world is emitting 300 million tons of plastic waste per year, and nearly one-third of plastic bags that people use are not collected and processed. Consequently, plastic and plastic waste discharged into the environment increases constantly and is present everywhere. They are day by day destroying the habitat and the animal world, especially marine animals.
The images taken in nature below will show us the tremendous devastation of plastic waste to the environment and the animals.
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An unfortunate stork caught a plastic bag. This photo was taken at a landfill in Spain and luckily the stork was freed by the photographer, otherwise it could die. The stork's body can decompose in a short time but the plastic bag is not.
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A turtle is caught in the old net that is thrown away trying to escape to catch up on the surface of the breathing water. Luckily, it was rescued by the photographer from the net. The photo was taken in a remote sea off the Mediterranean.
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A borrowed snail must use a plastic cover to protect its soft abdomen taken in Okinawa, Japan. The natural hard shell of the snail has been exploited by humans for sale, while leaving plastic waste.
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The seahorse must cling to a cotton swab of human ears to move through the flow. In the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, algae, algae or other natural debris have been replaced by waste.
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An alarming number is worldwide with nearly 1 million plastic water bottles sold every minute.
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Plastic waste is spilling into the wild natural world, causing many animals to live in a world full of plastic. In the picture are hyenas who are foraging on Harar landfill, in Ethiopia.
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There are about 8 million tons of plastic waste discharged to the ocean each year and it is reported that more than 700 marine animals have eaten or are more likely to get caught in plastic.
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Experts warn that by 2050 the ocean will be more garbage than marine life and nearly all seabirds on Earth will eat plastic.
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According to the United Nations report, there are 1000 plastic bags consumed per minute around the world but only 27% of them are processed and recycled.
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