Picture 10 ping pong balls. That’s how much plastic can be found in the stomachs of some turtles: MUN study
Sea turtles have become “little pockets of plastic swimming around in the ocean,” says Alice Zhu, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Memorial University. While most plastic comes from the land, there is some that comes from materials in the water, and it's problematic that animals are ingesting it.