Baby sea turtles are CHOKING and DYING on plastic, Friend. These precious little animals mistake plastic debris for food, which can obstruct their airways and digestive systems, puncture their internal organs, release toxic chemicals, or just directly trap and suffocate them.
Then, when these helpless sea turtles DIE, their bodies decompose -- and the plastic is released back into the ocean to KILL AGAIN!
Every single minute, the equivalent of an entire garbage truck of plastic makes its way into our oceans, killing over a million sea creatures every year.
Plastic pollution is destroying our crucial oceanic ecosystems and harming the coastal communities and wildlife that rely on them. Defenseless sea turtles, dolphins, and other beloved marine animals are DESPERATE for help, Friend -- and they’re counting on activists like you to speak up for them today. Please don’t let our oceans down: Add your name to our petition now before our deadline at 11:59pm TONIGHT and help END the plastic pollution crisis that’s threatening our planet! >>
Plastic doesn't decompose naturally, and instead, breaks down into tiny toxic microplastics that are accumulating and building up on our fragile Earth. It’s everywhere around you right now, Friend -- even ending up in our food, water, and air!
Can you believe that the average person ingests a CREDIT CARD’S WORTH of plastic every week?
The manufacturing of plastic itself burns through massive amounts of harmful fossil fuels, exacerbating the climate crisis and spewing toxic pollutants into the atmosphere. As a result, the residents near these industrial-size factories, who are often from low-income communities of color, are left to bear the brunt of these serious health risks.
And while plastic overtakes every part of our lives and our planet, careless corporate polluters at Big Plastic and Big Oil are getting RICHER by selling and producing more and more plastic products without any regard for the environmental destruction. It’s time to hold the greedy plastic industry accountable before plastic completely demolishes everything we have left of this Earth. But your signature is still missing from our plastic petition, Friend: Will you take urgent action right now to DEFEND people, wildlife, oceans, and our planet from a PLASTIC APOCALYPSE -- before it’s too late?
Thanks for being an environmental champion and helping to stop the plastic crisis,
Friends of the Earth
