How does pollution effect Leatherback Turtles?

Do you know what happens to your plastic bags when you have finished with them? Plastic bags are made from oil ,which is a natural resource, and they take hundreds of years to decompose (break down and disintergrate). Sea pollution is caused by people ditching rubish on beaches and then getting pulled into the sea by ocean currents. To stop causing pollution you could recycle, reuse or reduce plastic instead of throwing it onto beaches!
Pollution causes camage to sea creatures especially Leatherback turtles because their main source of food is Jellyfish. Unfortunately your plastic bags look like Jellyfish in water therefore turtles eat the plastic thinking it is their food. Consequently this causes turtles stomachs to become blocked and they starve to death. This is why, as a result by 2030 Leather back turtles will be extinct!

PLASTIC SOUP @ NMA

Yesterday at the National Marine Aquariums science lab, we had a picture of an animal and ours was a Albatross and we had to guess what was in his belly. We had to make a list of what we thought was inside, we thought there would be fish, meat, bread, flesh, water, blood and doughnuts. Next we had a bucket and that had all of the things that the bird actually had in his belly. We found out that an Albatross actually ate one squid two prawns, two fish, four milk bottle lids, thirty one pieces of plastic, thirty two pieces of rubbish thirteen lollipop sticks and two ropes. Next we had to pick them up with plastic gloves on and put them into the other tray. All we want to do is stop people throwing rubbish on the beach and make more people recycle their plastic.   People should get rid of their rubbish by recycling it.