Plastic products dominate our daily lives more than they should. It might be an easy-go-grab option, but it also the reason behind the death and extinction of a number of animals and marine life.?
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Only one-fourth of plastic is recycled into other plastic products, again only to satiatnever-ending?human greed. The unrecycled waste is typically dumped in landfills, where it never decomposes.
Yet, we continue to use it without paying any heed to the toll it's taking on the ecosystem. This shocking footage shows a fish with trash and pollution inside of its body after a fisherman cut it open.?
The fish had everything from plastic combs to plastic bottles in its stomach - everything that shouldn't be there. The creature is believed to be a Mahi-Mahi, better known as the common dolphinfish.
Environmentalists warned that the footage showed how rising amounts of plastic pollution is killing marine life. Marine scientist Erick Ross explained that fish often confuse the plastic pieces for food before ingesting them.?
But that's not the case with just marine life, it's every other animal out there.? A Seattle-based photographer, Chris Jordan exposed a gut-wrenching picture of plastic products found in the stomach of a bird species, called Laysan Albastross Chick found in the Mid-way Atoll - a stretch of sand and coral in the Northern Pacific Ocean.
Most of these birds ingested bottle caps, cigarette lighters, toys, fishing lines and other garbage which ultimately led to their slow and excruciating death.??
For the rest of us plastic may seem like a?convenient option, but definitely not at the cost of the voiceless creatures it is killing on a daily basis.?The only one thing that we can do to save them, is switch to more environment-friendly alternatives and be a little more mindful about how we dispose it. We are supposed to be the most intelligent and sensitive species on this planet. Let's not be selfish enough to choose convenience over someone's life.?