Plastic Bags

Plastic bags are one of the most common pollutants in our waters. Not only do they suffocate and entangle marine plants, they immediately poison and trap marine life. If you place a plastic bag in a large body of water, it is easy to see how a marine life might mistake them for jellyfish. For sea turtles, jellyfish is one of the main food sources in their diet. When turtles swallow plastic bags, they poison themselves and fill their stomach with the indigestible plastic. For coral, plastic bags are suffocating and get tangled into their polyps. This issue has an extremely simple solution: use paper or reusable bags! It is time to eliminate the harmful plastic from our environment!