How many birds and animals die every year?
There have been numerous documentations of birds and marine animals being starved, suffocated, entrapped, and strangled by plastic pollution. Unfortunately, there is no perfect data on the number of animals effected. While we state that plastic ocean pollution “kills a million seabirds, 100,000 sea turtles and marine mammals, and countless fish every year,” these stats are from old, isolated reports on marine debris. There is now way to accurately account for the loss of marine life due to plastic pollution, but in reality we’re probably understating the problem by several factors. For a more in-depth discussion of the accounting, read the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s FAQ on marine debris.
