“For a turtle that size, he weighs less than five ... to limit their single-use plastic reliance using reusable shopping bags,” she said. “Buying locally and wrapping your own presents ...

Saturday, the Surfrider Foundation chapter, Sea Turtle Conservancy and Melbourne Beach officials will kick off a “Rise Above Plastics” campaign by handing out free reusable shopping bags to ...

Sea turtles are shown to have a 50% chance of ... when the comparisons are made against washable, sturdy reusable shopping bags. View Article Sources Clapp, Jennifer and Swanston, Linda, "Doing ...

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...

Of the 263 turtles reportedly killed by plastic in ... In one case, a manatee died from eating a large amount of plastic shopping bags. "Imagine a ball of plastic bags in the stomach, about ...

Aquarium staff performed an autopsy on the turtle to examine the stomach contents, and found two plastic bags in its large bowel and stomach. One is a disposable shopping bag measuring 42 ...

A typical British family heads home laden with plastic bags packed full of the weekly supermarket shop... Cut to the haunting image of a sea turtle, thousands of miles away, struggling through the ...

Scientists have new evidence to explain why plastic is dangerous to sea turtles: the animals mistake the scent of plastic for food. Thus, a plastic bag floating in the sea not only looks like a ...

Some of the turtles in one outbreak reported in the study were traced back to a souvenir shop in Florida ... "People sell them for $10 in a plastic bag full of water." Most of those who fell ...

Kristin is a science journalist in New York who has lived in DC, Boston, LA, and the SF Bay Area. Most recently, Kristin worked for PBS Newshour and National Geographic writing about science and ...

Gliding through just a few feet of murky water, a green sea turtle dodges beer cans, plastic bags and shopping carts in the concrete-lined San Gabriel River. A scene that feels very turtle out of ...