Everyyear, worldwide, we use about 1 TRILLION plastic bags! 1 million plastic bags are used each minute. 10% of plastic made every year ends up in the ocean. There are probably 46,000 pieces of plastic floating on every square mile of the ocean. Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales, and other marine mammals, and more than 1 million seabirds die each year from ocean pollution and ingestion or entanglement in plastic and other marine debris. Well, maybe theres a solution. A small bacteria in the ocean was found eating plastic. The bacteria was discovered through electron microscopy on plastic items sampled at the Sargasso Sea. BUT, scientists have not yet finished researching this bug. So we don't know if it's exactly safe yet. It helps get rid of plastic but how about their degestive system? If their digestive systems are environmental friendsly, then that means nature has found new way to limit the damage humanity causes.
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