Plastic pollution in oceans is a major problem that causes significant harm to marine life. Each year, plastic debris results in the deaths of over a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. Ingested plastic cuts off breathing passages and stomachs of many ocean species. The document calls on readers to reduce plastic waste and pollution by taking what they bring to the beach and cutting plastic soda can rings that can trap and injure marine life.

1. Preserve Our Oceans
Amanda
M’Sadoques
If you brought it in, take it
home
Cut plastic soda can rings
Don’t use the beach as an
ashtray
Plastic debris
cause the death of
a million seabirds,
and 100,000
mammals a year
Plastic cuts off the
breathing
passages and
stomachs to many
marine species.

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World Wildlife Federation (WWF), 2008. Problems: Ocean
Pollution. Retrieved on April 32, 2013 from
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/marine
/problems/pollution/index.cfm.
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