Neritic juvenile green turtles are exposed to a concentration of
plastic pollution while foraging within the Río de la Plata frontal
system. The distribution of plastic accumulated by the bottom
front and the core foraging areas of the animals overlap widely
(Fig. 2). Exposure results in ingestion, as shown by the high frequency
of plastic debris found in the digestive tract of turtles bycaught
in the southern portion of the estuary (Fig. 3, Table 1). From
our previous tracking studies we know that green turtles spend a
large portion of the year (up to 6 months) in this estuarine region
(González Carman et al., 2012);