The oceans have become one giant refuse bin for all manner of plastics. All sea turtle species are particularly prone
and may be seriously harmed," according to the biologists Colette Wabnitz, from the University of British Columbia, and
Wallace Nichols, of the California Academy of Sciences. In "Plastic Pollution: An Ocean Emergency", they write: "Continued
research on the impacts of plastic on the ocean environment and human health is likely to conclude the problem is
worse than currently understood.