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Leahy, S. (2004, June 5). //Drowning in an Ocean of Plastic//. Retrieved from Wired website: h[|ttp://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/06/63699] Facts > ====Most plastics don't biodegrade. Unless removed, they'll remain in the sea for hundreds of years, breaking up into ever-smaller particles.====
 * 1) ====Marine trash, mainly plastic, is killing more than a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year====
 * 2) ====In the North Sea and found that fulmars, a type of seagull, had an average of 30 pieces of plastic in their stomachs.====
 * 3) ====In the sea, big pieces of plastic look like jellyfish or squid, while small pieces look like fish eggs====
 * 4) ====Macdonald, who is also an underwater filmmaker, said he has seen albatross parents fly huge distances to feed their young a deadly diet of plastic bottle caps, lighters and light sticks.====
 * 5) ====The sheer volumes of plastic in oceans are staggering====
 * 6) ====About 20 percent of the plastic in the oceans comes from ships or offshore platforms; the rest is blown, washed off the land or intentionally dumped, according to a preliminary report issued April 2004====
 * 7) ====Not only does plastic kill marine animals that eat it or get tangled in it and drown, but it also damages and degrades their habitat.====
 * 8) ====Plastic pellets are also magnets for toxic chemicals like DDT and PCBs, becoming, in effect, poison pills affect the animals that are in the ocean more than other pollutions====
 * 9) ====Plastics themselves can leach endocrine-disrupting chemicals like biphenyl A.====