Plastic Pollution

"Consuming plastic leads to widespread scar tissue throughout the internal organs of these seabirds, which slowly starves them, causes kidney and liver disease, and makes them more susceptible to pathogens."

Researchers found that in addition serious damage to their stomach and digestive glands, birds go on to show outward signs including 

• Low body conditions - low fat which reduces their energy reserves.

• Stunted growth

• Shorter wing spans (a serious problem for migratory birds)

"as plastics float around in the ocean for a year, 10 years, a couple of decades, they basically act like a magnet or sponge, and they take all of the chemicals that we've put out into the atmosphere and elsewhere through things like fossil fuel burning, and they absorb it onto the surface so that the plastic becomes" as one marine biologist put it, "like a little toxic bullet.