{"id":18950,"date":"2011-03-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=18950"},"modified":"2011-03-30T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:00:00","slug":"endangered-sea-turtles-swallow-a-ton-of-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/endangered-sea-turtles-swallow-a-ton-of-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Sea Turtles Swallow a Ton of Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sea-turtle-plastic.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18951\" title=\"sea-turtle-plastic\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sea-turtle-plastic.jpg\" alt=\"plastic from endangered sea turtle stomach\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Becky Striepe of our sister site Ecoscraps recently shared a pretty amazing photo of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ecoscraps.com\/2011\/03\/25\/sea-turtle-plastic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plastic contents of a juvenile green sea turtle&#8217;s stomach<\/a> (shown above). The sea turtle was apparently accidentally captured in Bah\u00eda Samboromb\u00f3n, Argentina.<\/h3>\n<p>Becky writes: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/apps\/redlist\/details\/4615\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green sea turtles are an endangered species<\/a> and are having a particularly rough time of things lately,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecoscraps.com\/2011\/02\/04\/cold-stunned-green-sea-turtles-rescued-along-texas-coast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dealing with extreme temperatures<\/a> and with plastic pollution. We talk about the problems with plastic, but a photo like this really drives home the dangers of our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecoscraps.com\/2009\/07\/21\/living-without-disposables\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disposable<\/a>, plastic-based consumerism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It sure does.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2010\/04\/16\/second-garbage-patch-confirmed-in-atlantic-ocean\/\"><strong>Second Garbage Patch Confirmed in Atlantic Ocean<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2009\/03\/22\/boat-made-of-16000-plastic-bottles-to-sail-from-calif-to-austraila\/\"><strong>Boat Made of 16,000 Plastic Bottles to Sail from Cali to Australia<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2009\/05\/05\/activists-attempt-clean-pacific-garbage-patch\/\"><strong>Activists Make First Attempt to Clean Pacific Garbage Patch<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expertsure.com\/2009\/08\/28\/journey-into-the-great-pacific-ocean-garbage-patch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Journey into the \u201cGreat Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch\u201d \u2014 Scientific Findings<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Photo via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seaturtle.org\/imagelib\/?photo=5456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seaturtle.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becky Striepe of our sister site Ecoscraps recently shared a pretty amazing photo of the plastic contents of a juvenile green sea turtle&#8217;s stomach (shown 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