Reuters via Environmental News Network reports on the record high levels of plastic beach trash on British beaches that pose great threats to marine life such as whales, dolphins and seabirds:"[Environmental group] the Marine Conservation Society, which campaigns for cleaner beaches and seas, said plastic litter has increased by 126 percent since its first survey in 1994.Scores of marine wildlife species, including seals and turtles, have died after eating plastic or drowning after getting tangled in debris or old fishing nets, it said.
In the last decade, the amount of plastic drinks bottles has risen by 67 percent, plastic bags by 54 percent and cigarette butts by 44 percent, the society said."
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