14 DAY TRIAL // According to an investigation whose findings were published in a recent issue of the journal Conservation Biology, a species of turtles dubbed green turtles now have an incredibly sweet tooth for plastic.
Long story short, researcher say these animal currently eat twice as much plastic as they did merely 25 years ago.
Needless to say, this is because plastic pollution in our seas and oceans has upped considerably.
Otherwise put, the turtles have a lot more bits and pieces of plastic to pick and choose from.
According to Inhabitat, the chances that a sea turtle will ingest plastic now revolve around 50%. In the 1980s, they only revolved around 30%.
“Our results show clearly that debris ingestion by sea turtles is a global phenomenon of increasing magnitude,” the researchers reportedly wrote in their paper.
Conservationists warn that, although plastic debris that not immediately kill a turtle, the animal sooner or later develops medical complications and passes away.