Millions of marine animals die each year from plastic pollution and other human threats like oil spills, chemicals, and fishing gear. Pollution enters oceans from sources on land, with plastic debris making up 60-95% of marine pollution. Simple actions like recycling, cleaning beaches, and not releasing balloons can help reduce waste that harms sea life. Most ocean trash comes from land-based activities, threatening marine animals and coating beaches with indestructible plastic.

1. An estimated 100,000 marine mammals will die annually from plastic debris alone, as well as
millions of fish and birds.
Oil spills, fertilizers, garbage patches, sewage, toxic chemicals, fishing nets, plastics and many
more are all silent killers of our marine life, that should come to an end!
Pollution can be reduced a number of ways. Recycling reduces waste in our sea’s, beach clean up
days, party balloons should be popped and never released, pick up your trash when leaving the
beach, and pollutants do not go down your storm drains. These are just a few ways to help!
HELP ME!!
Land-based sources account for up
to 80% of the world’s marine
pollution.
60-95% of that waste being plastic
debris. Causing indestructible,
material to float in our oceans and
eventually deposit on beaches!
Cristina Luis

2. HELP ME!!
References
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pollution-seal-trapped.jpg