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What is a gyre — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:58:30 +0000

[...] Other animals such as sea turtles and birds also consume larger bits of plastic mistaking it for food. These larger fragments cannot pass through an animals’ digestive systems and have no nutritional value. With no room left for their normal food, they slowly starve to death. Albatross unwittingly feed plastic to their young, causing them to die of starvation, too. Once an animal dies and its body decomposes, all that remains is the plastic, which is then released back into the environment where it will continue to cause harm. From, Environmental Cleanup Coalition: What’s the problem. [...]

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