Question

What damage can a plastic string cause?​

Answer 1

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Plastic pollution causes harm to humans, animals and plants through toxic pollutants. It can take hundreds or even thousands of years for plastic to break down so the environmental damage is long-lasting. It affects all organisms in the food chain from tiny species like plankton through to whales.

Entanglement can lead to injury, illness, suffocation, starvation, and even death. Ingestion Many animals, such as sea turtles, seabirds, and marine mammals have been known to ingest marine debris.

Answer 2

Plastic string or any form of plastic can cause damage to living organisms by entanglement as well as consumption.

• Plastic strings are thick and can easily get entangled resulting in suffocation, abrasions and even death.
• Plastic can not be easily decomposed, many animals eat the strings and die.
• Often industries dump plastic into water bodies such as rivers, lakes causing water pollution.
• The consumption of plastic by marine animals such as fish, turtles chokes them, leading to death.
• Living organisms are also affected by exposure to plastic chemicals which interferes with their health.