Marine Pollution

What happens to your plastic bags when you are finished with them? Plastic bags take hundreds of years to decompose because they are made from oil, a natural resource. They cause marine pollution (rubbish in the sea) and damage sea life. Some of our rubbish is carelessly dumped by roadsides and on beaches which could end up in the sea.

Ocean currents carry plastic bags to feeding grounds. Plastic bags look like Jelly fish in the water which are turtles main source of food. Turtles eat the bags because they think they are their food. Consequently it causes their stomach to become blocked resulting in them starving to death .