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Half of world's sea turtles have eaten plastic, study says

2015-09-15 02:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: More than half the sea turtles in the world are thought to have eaten plastic or other forms of human rubbish, according to a new study. Queensland University academics studied drift maps of plastic and compared these with known turtle habitats and records of animals which died after eating plastic debris, the International Business Times (IBT) reported. They then used this to estimate how many turtles are likely to have eaten debris, either dumped in the oceans by humans or swept out to sea....

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