How your plastic is killing seabirds

It is not hidden from any of us how harmful plastic is to our environment. Although it would be absolutely wrong to say that only the environment is harmed by it, plastic harms the entire human life and animals.  Seabirds are also one of these animals, whose whole life is proving to be bad and dangerous due to these plastics. As per the latest scientific research and reports, 80% of seabirds have plastic in their stomach and more than 200 pieces of plastic are found inside the stomach of each seabird. Now, would you say that this is a very minor problem and we do not need to pay any special attention to it?

Here in this article, we have explained to you how your plastic is killing innocent and ignorant seabirds. We must focus on their problems and every individual should try to help them by managing the plastics effectively.

Plastics are killing children of seabirds

Plastic continues to kill the young seabirds. Seabirds inadvertently feed plastic to their chicks thinking of green food. Getting plastic in the stomachs of chicks is very harmful and dangerous for their life. It shortens the life of the seabird chick. According to studies, it has been said that due to these waste plastics found near the sea, the life of the chicks of seabirds is in great danger.

Plastic Ingestion

The number of seabirds who are dying because of plastic consumption is more than 1 million. This is not a very small number of birds. Even more worrying is that only 5% of seabirds have found plastic in their stomachs butt by 1980, this ratio became 80%. Plastic pollution is killing seabirds every minute.

Entanglement

Entanglement is another way seabirds get killed by this plastic pollution. What it means by the entanglement of seabirds in plastic is that whenever they try to go down for the search of food or any other reason they get stuck into plastic waste and do not get able to come out from it. This entanglement may cause the death of seabirds or the inability to move. It is to be known that more than 8 million plastic wastes are thrown into the sea every year, which causes the death and serious problems of seabirds.

What can be done to protect seabirds from the effects of plastic?

If we look at reality, it seems almost impossible that we will be able to eliminate plastic completely and clean the ocean completely.  And even if we think of doing this, then it will take about 100 to 150 years to end, so, certainly, we cannot eliminate it completely.  But we can definitely try to reduce plastic by encouraging and helping activities like reuse and recycling. You can sell old plastic materials and can be part of the recycling process.

And, we are here for the recycling

At scrap vendor, we will help you to manage all your scrap and waste materials effectively. We can pay you a very good amount of money for your scraps. We acquire these waste materials for recycling and making them reusable.