Have you ever wondered where all your plastic bags end up when you have finished using them? Because plastic bags are made from oil, which is a natural resource, they take hundreds of years to decompose (break down and disintegrate). Did you Know that many of your plastic bags end up in the sea which results in a problem for marine life (sea life and creatures).
How does this affect Leather back turtles? Leather back Turtles main source of food is jelly fish. Some plastic bags end up as rubbish in your bins and goes to the landfill site (rubbish dump), but some is carelessly dumped on roadsides or on beaches and end up in the sea. The Leather back turtles eat the plastic bags because they think it is jelly fish. Their stomach becomes blocked and they starve to death. If the turtles keep eating plastic bags then by 2030 they will be extinct.
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