31 August 2008

Rubbish Statistics

Around 100 million tonnes of plastic are produced in the world each year! 10 percent of that ends up in the sea. That is equivalent to 10 MILLION TONS of rubbish!

Look at this poor turtle. Animals tend to mistake rubbish for their prey (e.g. jellyfish) and choke on them! It is estimated that around 1 million sea creatures die from choking on plastic!

This all happens because people are littering. We should spare a thought for the animals and dispose of our rubbish appropriately.

6 comments:

AlPhabEt "N" said...

yeah...
Say no to rubbish..
Save nature...

George Liles said...

I would like to use the turtle picture on a poster at an nonprofit aquarium. Where can I receive permission?

Kathy said...

Hello George Liles. I'm not particularly sure where you could receive permission but anyway, the picture was found at http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FGXiaOUYep4/SLoUlsv1OdI/AAAAAAAAARY/Wb2G1VMWdHw/s1600-h/turtle_choking_plastic.jpg. You might want to find out from there. :)

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It is a pity that these kind of thing can affect so much the environments. Specially in the oceans. It is common that birds and other animals get stuck in the plastic and die.

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