How Plastic Pollution Harms Animals (and What We Can Do)
If you toss your plastic bottles in the recycling bin and feel good about it, this one's for you. Only about five percent of plastic waste in the U.S. gets recycled. Meanwhile, plastic pollution is starving seabirds, injuring sea turtles, and drowning marine mammals.
In the first episode of Advocacy Bites, a new series of short episodes featuring one issue and one thing you can do about it, we look at the damage single-use plastics do to wildlife, whether plastic bag bans work, and how hard the plastics industry fights to stop them.
In this episode, you'll learn:
How plastic pollution harms…
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