This is how your plastic bags cause a problem for marine life

Have you ever wondered what happens to your plastic bags when you have finished with them? Before you are finished with plastic bags people use them to carry home shopping but when the plastic bags are finished with they end up as rubbish in our bins or they are put into a landfill site (rubbish dump). Plastic bags are made out of oil,a natural resource,which in the water takes HUNDREDS of years to decompose(dissolve or disintegrate)
Plastic bags cause a HUGE problem for marine life (sea creatures)because although some plastic bags end up in landfill sites some get washed up into the sea. Leatherback turtles are sea creatures that eat the plastic bags. They eat them because in the water plastic bags look like Jellyfish, the main source of food for Leatherback turtles. This results in the turtles stomach becoming blocked and they starve to death! If this carries on then by 2030 Leatherback turtles will become extinct.