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Animals are affected greatly by plastic, the trash ruins thier homes and poisons thier food. Mother birds can accidentally regergitate plastic into thier babies mouths, causing death or sickness. Sharp peices of plastic can cut animals and get lodged around thier throats.

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Consequences of Plastic
What are some consequences of plastic trash in the ocean? Research what happens to the plastic that is thrown out. What kind of path does it take to get to the ocean? What kind of plastic is entering the ocean and how is it harming the ocean? How is it affecting animals? Once you have researched these questions decide what you share with your class and place it on the shared padlet. This can be links to other websites, Youtube videos, just information. The choice is up to you!
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About 165 million tons of plastic has made its way to the ocean and it is affecting the creatures very badly. Some animals will think that the plastic is food and they will go on to eat the plastic which is bad for them. 91% of plastic is not recycled and that can effect the environment super negative way. Also plastic can last more than 400 years without breaking down so that makes for trouble in the ocean.

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Many animals such as fish, turtles, and seabirds all mistake plastic for food. And we still keep putting the plastic into the ocean. Fish injust 12,000-24,000 tons of plastic each year. Some scientists cut open some animals and find that there are pieces of plastic inside of the animals.

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In 2010 8 million tons of plastic waste were thrown into the ocean. This left many animals and their habitat devastated as they ate some of it getting it into their systems and eating each other all the while picking up more plastic and dying. There was an estimate of 275 million tons of trash thrown into the ocean by 192 countries. That estimate can calculate up to 13,888 tons every year! We could be recycling this plastic but we are harming the environment instead of going the extra mile to keep it safe.

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it they can't digest it. Some birds get caught in the plastic so they can't fly. If the birds can't fly they'll die of starvation. When a albatross dives for food they catch squid, fish, and other foods, but they also pick up 

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Plastic that ends up in the ocean can harm many of the oceans creatures. The plastic could be eaten and kill an animal, or a fish or something can get trapped in the plastic and die that way. If you just throw something that is plastic on the ground, the wind can blow it far away and it can end up in the ocean. http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/index.en.php?id=934

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Have you ever wondered what happens to animals do to pollution watch this video to find out.

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The animals think that the plastic is food, and so they eat it. That gives them health problems that could kill them. The plastic has impacted 86% of all sea turtle species. Sea turtles think that plastic bags are jellyfish, so they try to eat them. Birds also think that plastic pellets are fish eggs. Boaters sometimes throw trash into the ocean. It can also end up in a sewer system, and when it rains a lot it can get swept out to sea. Here is one of the websites I used it has a lot of great information.

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The plastic things that hold cans and bottles together can go around fish and choke them. When animals eat plastic it is absorbed into there body and passed through the food chain.  Plastic in the ocean can also be harmful to us. If a fish eats some plastic and is caught by a fisherman then eats the fish then he or she could have deadly toxins in there body. fish in the northern part of the pacific eat 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic each year . the most recent studies indicate that more than half of the sea turtles today have eaten plastic. http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ocean_plastics/

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It's really sad what is happening https://www.livescience.com/60954-plastic-found-in-deepest-living-creatures.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGBpHYLNtRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQTUWK7CM-Y

Millions of tons of trash gets dumped into the ocean every day,most of it we could've recycled.

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Many of the trash gets tossed in storm drains then goes in the sewer and then gets in rivers then goes to the ocean. Then when it get s to the ocean we really can't stop it because then it goes into the currents then it get in the huge garbage masses
with then it bad for our cruisers when they go out to do bomb sweeping missions in the pacific we also could use it for military proposes but most likely if every one reduced their waste by one pound we would almost have the garbage patches destroyed and we could recycle it to make it into other products such as other water bottles, coral reefs, and fishing line and nets that will decompose if left in the water for a year that would primarily cut the waste. We have 7 some billion people on this planet we should be able to do this for the future of the world for our great great great great great great great grandchildren for the world for us. This was totally based off   of my theory disclaimer this was not real scientific facts just once again a theory

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Ocean creatures eat the plastic spilled or thrown in the waters, other animals eat those animals, and then they die because plastic is non digestible. Sometimes the plastic and trash that gets in the ocean is out of our control, because winds can lead the trash that got knocked out of its container on garbage day (that happened in my neighborhood not too long ago; there was trash blowing everywhere for about a week straight), into the rivers and waterways that eventually lead into the ocean. The thing is that people don't clean things up, because people either don't care or don't realize the consequences. It is insane how many people simply do not care. I wonder if those people enjoy seafood, and wonder what happened to the fish industry after seafood is deemed unsafe to eat because of all the plastic that finds its way into the sea.

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Millions of animals die because of us. When we throw trash in the ocean animals might think its food. They could eat it and choke. They end up dying just because we had to have that drink in the plastic bottle. Link to website, |
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I made this photograph on Midway Island a little over eight years ago. Since then not much has changed for the birds, but they taught me something that has shifted me internally forever.

On this tiny atoll an astonishing tragedy is taking place: tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their stomachs filled with plastic. Their parents mistake floating trash for food as they forage over the vast polluted Pacific Ocean. Carrying shards of plastic back to the island inside their bellies, the adult birds unknowingly feed lethal quantities of it to their chicks.

Midway's remoteness makes this phenomenon particularly iconic: The island lies near the center of the Pacific, surrounded by 60 million square miles of open sea in every direction. It is the furthest you can get from a continent anywhere on Earth.

For me, kneeling over these scenes is like looking into a macabre mirror. Midway reflects back to us one appallingly emblematic consequence of the collective trance of our culture of mass consumption. Bloated with emptiness and dying of excess, we humans, like the albatross, find ourselves losing the ability to discern what is nourishing from what is toxic - to our bodies and our spirits, our politics and our culture.

In my eight trips to Midway I lost count of how many birds I witnessed choking on cigarette lighters, toothbrushes, bottle caps, and other plastic junk. I held the softness of their still-warm feathered bodies in my arms as feelings of sadness, rage, and shame washed over me in waves. And in that experience I received a transformational message: the true nature of grief revealed itself.

I had always thought of grief as a bad feeling, like pain, not to be embraced but to be minimized and gotten over. Grief seemed to be part of the darkness, a bad drug to be avoided. I had held it off for my whole life, fearing it like a slippery slope that could lead to depression and anxiety, and overwhelm.

The albatross showed me that grief is not the same as sadness or despair; grief is the same as love. It is a felt experience of love, for something we are losing or have lost. We feel grief for the suffering of other beings because we love them. In grief the bottom drops out and we fall, not into an abyss of hopelessness, but into a clear blue sea, the infinite ocean of love that we each contain. Grief is a portal to the deepest part of ourselves, where our wisdom and compassion reside.

Grief and love can be seen as inseparable twins. When we hold grief at a distance, our love becomes inaccessible; and when we embrace grief, we reconnect with the essential aspect of our being that has gone missing lately. I believe that if we could summon the courage to grieve together, on a collective scale, for all that is being lost in our world, then our love would return and, along with it, our generosity, joy, and peace. And if we were to step through that door together, there is no knowing how many of the world's problems we could solve, and fast.

In this way the message of these birds is not only one of horror and tragedy, but also of beauty and renewal. The legendary albatross guides us to take a moment and grieve together, not as an exercise in shame or pain or punishment, but because in this act of surrender a doorway opens that leads home.
Artist/photographer Chris Jordan is director, editor, and writer of ALBATROSS, a film made from footage he and his team filmed on Midway Island over several years. ALBATROSS will be released as a public artwork this spring. More info: www.albatrossthefilm.com For more content and to be part of HuffPost's new economy community join our Facebook Group.

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This Image Shows The Tragedy Of Mass Consumption - But Change Is Possible

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I made this photograph on Midway Island a little over eight years ago. Since then not much has changed for the birds, but they taught me something that has shifted me internally forever. On this tiny atoll an astonishing tragedy is taking place: tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their stomachs filled with plastic.

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Plastic and garbage that goes into the ocean doesn't just affect animals, but also humans. The plastic that fish ingest harms the fish, and when the fish are sold and eaten, it gets into our digestive system, causing us harm.
Plastics in the Ocean Affecting Human Health. (2018). Case Studies. Retrieved 12 January 2018, from https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/health/case_studies/plastics.html

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Plastic can get everywhere. 12 millions tons of plastic is entering our oceans every year. That is the equivalent of one trash truck full of the stuff, every minute. 2 billion-four-hundred thousand pounds of plastic. Just nine percent of the massive amount of plastic that we create is recycled. This means that most of our plastic is either incinerated or dumped in landfills, both of which are bad for the environment. Plastic can be carried by the wind into a major river, or directly to the ocean itself. Even worse for the ocean is plastic litter. This plastic can be carried by wind or by the rain, into sewers, or into rivers that empty into the ocean. Major rivers around the world carry roughly  1.15-2.41 million tons of plastic into the sea every year. that is up to 100,000 trash trucks. http://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/en/blog/how-does-plastic-end-up-in-the-ocean/blog/60072/

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Plastic pollution is threatening many species of marine life. Over 700 species of marine animals are being affected by the plastic in our oceans. Just a few of the animals that are being affected are turtles, fish, birds, whales, and dolphins.
These animals are
These 5 Marine Animals Are Dying Because of Our Plastic Trash … Here’s How We Can Help. (2017). One Green Planet. Retrieved 12 January 2018, from http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/marine-animals-are-dying-because-of-our-plastic-trash/

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Plastic forms about 90 percent of the rubbish that floats in the oceans. Animals can eat the plastic, and that can cause health issues or it can make them die. Toothbrushes, cigarette lighters, and syringes have been found inside of dead birds because they mistake the plastic for food. Birds are not the only animals that are mistaking the plastic for food many other animals are too These scenarios can stop happening if we just stop putting plastic into the oceans.

Blake, Heidi. "'Great Garbage Patch': The Problem Of Plastics In The Ocean." Telegraph.co.uk. N. p., 2010. Web. 12 Jan. 2018.

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Some marine animals think smaller pieces of plastic is foods so they eat it, but when they eat it they can't digest it. Some birds get caught in the plastic so they can't fly. If the birds can't fly they'll die of starvation. When a albatross dives for food they catch squid, fish, and other foods, but they also pick up plastic in their beak and eat it. 98 percent of the albatross are found ingested plastic. Some fish that we eat breathe in microscopic plastic debris that was in the water, through their gills.
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/marine-animals-are-dying-because-of-our-plastic-trash/
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/how-plastic-is-harming-animals-the-planet-and-us/

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How Plastic Bags Affect Wildlife

The real impact of plastic bag litter is felt on wildlife both in the marine environment and in rural areas.

Tens of thousands of whales, birds, seals and turtles are killed every year from plastic bag litter in the marine environment as they often mistake plastic bags for food such as jellyfish.

Plastic bags, once ingested, cannot be digested or passed by an animal so it stays in the gut. Plastic in an animal's gut can prevent food digestion and can lead to a very slow and painful death.

As plastic bags can take up to 1,000 years to break down, once an animal dies and decays after ingesting plastic, the plastic is then freed back into the marine environment to carry on killing other wildlife.

A Bryde's whale dies after swallowing 6 square metres of plastic

In August 2000, an eight metre Bryde's whale died soon after becoming stranded on a Cairns beach. An autopsy found that the whale's stomach was tightly packed with 6 m ² of plastic, including many plastic check-out bags. Such obstructions in animals can cause severe pain, distress and death.

Bryde's whales, like many other types of whales, feed by swallowing large amounts of water. If the Bryde's whale had died at sea, it would have decayed, releasing the plastic to kill other marine life for hundreds of years to come.

'Lucky' the platypus rescued

In May 2003, a Platypus was rescued from the Don River, Tasmania, after a plastic bag became wrapped around its body, cutting deep into its skin.

The platypus overcame the species' inherent shyness to approach a person for help.

After seeking medical advice and giving the platypus time to recuperate, it was deemed to be okay and set free. On seeing its injuries, its rescuer and the media called it 'Lucky.'

'Pete' the pelican died after swallowing 17 plastic bags

In 1998, a pelican was found dead in Kiama after eating 17 plastic bags.

The pelican presumably thought the plastic bags were food. The pelican was preserved and named Pete. Since then he has been standing in front of a sign at Fitzroy Falls that informs visitors of how he died and the problems of plastic bags and ocean pollution.

Other wildlife affected by plastic bags

Discovered in agony, a calf that was recently put down in Mudgee NSW, was found to have eaten 8 plastic bags. The loss of this calf cost the farmer around $500.

Birds get caught up in them too. Unable to fly they die of starvation.

Turtles have also been rescued with plastic bags lodged in their throat - and part of the bag hanging out of their mouth.

The turtle pictured on the right was found and rescued by a senior staff member of Melbourne Zoo while they were out doing fieldwork.

Courtesy by Planet Ark

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Animal Friends is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, founded in 2001 with the aim to promote animal protection and animal rights as well as veganism, as ethical, ecological and healthy lifestyle.

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Why do the animals eat the plastic in the ocean? The animals eat the plastic because it looks like food. According to the website the experts also say that it smells like food to the animals. More than 200 animal species ave been known to consume plastic. The animals have also been known to eat the wrappers and litter that have been thrown into the ocean. For a long time the researchers have thought that the plastic draws the animals to it. But that has been proven not true. They say that the animals senses is what tells them to eat the plastic. Scientists estimate that there is about 165 tons of trash in the oceans today. That is equal to about 330,000 pounds of trash in the ocean.  https://earthwiseradio.org/2016/11/why-do-animals-eat-ocean-plastic/

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The trash harms the environment. Most sea animals can tell whether something is trash or normal food. Seabirds will eat almost anything which leads them to eat plastic which slowly poisons them. Sea turtles also have a habit of doing this, to them balloons look like a great kind of food but the string can suffocate them and the balloon can poison them. Another problem with ocean trash is that it costs a lot to clean up.

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TRASH TALK: How Does Marine Debris Impact the Ocean, Animals and Me? | Ocean Today

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Debris can also damage important habitats, like coral reefs, by breaking or smothering them. Corals serve as the base of the marine ecosystem, and impacts here can be felt all the way to you and me. Plus, plastics have harmful chemicals in them. Fish eat plastic. We eat fish.

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Plastic is incredibly harmful to the environment.  When animals eat plastic it makes them sick.  Stuff like plastic pop rings can get caught on their necks. This can make them not be able to swim and die. Ocean pollution is a huge problem but yet we still are doing nothing about it.  When a animal eats a animal that already ate plastic it can still become sick. Now think of how big and long the food chain is in the ocean and how many animals could be affected by one little piece of plastic.

Plastic and pollution in the ocean can also cause global warming and make storms stronger and more dangerous. Think about all the damage all ready done by tsunamis and hurricanes. The plastic that is already is the ocean adds to that so before the hurricane take a tree down plastic is already being added and destroying building and structures. Did you know the #1 element in the ocean is plastic. Another fact is that plastic absorbs toxic chemicals in the ocean and causes poison to whatever or whoever eats it.

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How We Can Keep Plastics Out of Our Ocean | National Geographic

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Animals are being hurt and killed from plastic in oceans. Marine plastic pollution has effected at least 267 species including 86% of all sea turtle species and 43% of all marine mammal species.
https://www.cleanwater.org/problem-marine-plastic-pollution

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To some Marine animals plastic looks like Jellyfish. They eat it and the plastic hurts their stomach. Fish in the North Pacific eat about 12,000-24,000 TONS of plastic each year.Half the sea turtles world-wide have ingested plastic. Over 100,000 marine animals die every year because of plastic. About 1 million sea birds die a year because of plastic. Things like plastic pop rings get caught around small marine animals necks. The animals aren't able to get the plastic off and end up choking.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/03/whale-found-dying-coast-norway-30-plastic-bags-stomach/

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Sadly trash in the ocean is slowly killing off many species of animals. Many animals mistake small pieces of trash for food. When an animal takes in the plastic their digestive systems are unable to break it down. This can hurt the animal that ate it or if that animal is eaten the plastic will then be transported into the body of a new animal. Another problem that is on the rise is the fact that fish and other sea creatures can get stuck in trash. When an animal gets stuck it can cut off there circulation. You may just think that the sea creatures are the only ones being effected by trash in the ocean but, sea gulls and other birds that eat fish are taking in this plastic as well. Up from the sky it is hard to tell if something is food or not, so when they swoop down to catch "fish", they catch trash instead. When a bird takes in the plastic it might die on the land causing, land animals to eat the bird that has plastic in it carrying it into the land creating even more problems.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ocean_plastics