How does plastic pollution affect wildlife below water in Thailand?

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  1. Hello. My research question is how does plastic pollution affect
  2. wildlife below water in Thailand?
  3. Well, first of all, the um goals that connect with
  4. my topic are you?
  5. And goals number 13 climate action and um goal number
  6. 14, life below water.
  7. The targets for climate action are to build up the
  8. low carbon industries that use clean technologies.
  9. And the target for life below water is stopping plastic
  10. from reaching the oceans.
  11. Well, what is plastic pollution?
  12. Uh huh.
  13. Plastic pollution is one.
  14. A country or a place uses too much plastic that
  15. can't be disposed.
  16. This then affects wildlife such as animals in the sea
  17. or on land and affects humans as well.
  18. And how much plastic does Thailand use?
  19. Well, Thailand uses over 70 billion plastic bags a year.
  20. Therefore the plastic used will eventually make its way to
  21. the ocean.
  22. Uh huh.
  23. What plastic pollution affecting wildlife below water first, How does
  24. plastic pollution affect the wildlife below water?
  25. Well, when there is lots of plastic, the animals think
  26. it's food and they eat it, which is hard for
  27. them to digest.
  28. This therefore leads them to die.
  29. According to news 18 dot com in june 2000 and
  30. 18 about 80 plastic bags weighing eight kg were found
  31. inside the stomach of a beached pilot whale in southern
  32. Thailand. Mhm.
  33. Although veterinarians tried to say that the plastic had torn
  34. the whale's stomach and it died a few days later,
  35. this shows that plastic potion can kill sea creatures more
  36. than you think.
  37. This is a chart showing how much plastic a country
  38. uses per year.
  39. The most plastic used per year is China with about
  40. nine tons Thailand uses about one ton of plastic per
  41. year. Yeah, oceans under threat.
  42. According to oceans in danger.
  43. For years, the oceans have been used as the largest
  44. rubbish tip on earth.
  45. People thought that their sheer size could deal with whatever
  46. was dumped into them.
  47. Uh huh.
  48. Mhm. Guess what?
  49. There is a way to change plastic pollution affecting the
  50. wildlife underwater.
  51. First, If you go shopping, remember to take a cloth
  52. bag instead of a plastic.
  53. one another example is avoid using single use plastics such
  54. as drinking straws.
  55. No, a third example is buy more bulk food and
  56. fewer packaged products and finally replace plastics.
  57. Tupperware for glass or steel containers.
  58. Oh yeah.
  59. What animal is the most endangered underwater to do of
  60. plastic? Well, unfortunately turtles are the most endangered and at
  61. risk of extinction due to plastic pollution.
  62. Research shows that 52 of the world's turtles have eaten
  63. plastic. The reason for this is simple because a floating
  64. plastic bag looks like a lot of jellyfish from the
  65. turtles perspective LG or any other species that make up
  66. a large component of the turtles species.
  67. All the turtle hold the turtle species are at risk
  68. from plastic pollution and this is my bibliography.
  69. Thanks for listening.