According to 2017 data of waste plastic 79% is in landfills or in nature. Naturally, ‘nature’ includes oceans that have been responding to their pollution for years. Pollution of the oceans does not only affect marine life.

A recently published new study is further proof of that. Scientists have studied the harm of plastic waste in seabirds and defined it as a disease: ‘plasticosis‘.

Plastic waste causes physical damage to birds’ organs:

According to research published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, seabirds suffer from a disease called “plasticosis” as a result of consuming plastic waste. Sharp-edged plastic waste directly injures birds from the inside, harms your organs.

The species of seabird that scientists studied closely were minute hands with pink feet. Examination of the stomachs of dozens of dead birds, damage to plastics revealed:

Located about 600 kilometers from Australia To Lord Howe Island This breeding bird grows weaker than usual on the shores of the island each fall. Many of the birds can be found sick or dead.

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• Plastic from the belly of a dead pink-footed minute hand.