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Dear NRDC Activist,
After a sperm whale washed up on shore in Spain, scientists found 64 pounds of plastic trash in its stomach.
As shocking as that is, it's just a tiny fraction of the thousands of pounds of plastic that will be dumped into the ocean before you finish reading this email.
Plastic pollution is getting worse. It's trashing our oceans. Killing marine wildlife. And with more microplastics and nanoplastics being found in our bodies, it threatens to poison us all.
NRDC is fighting right now to curb plastic pollution and hold corporations accountable for their plastic trash, but we can't do it without your help.
Donate $5 today and your gift will be 3x MATCHED, up to $400,000. Help us reach our goal by December 31st, so that we can stop our oceans from being trashed and defend the environment on all fronts.
380 million tons of plastic is produced every year, and up to 50 percent of that is from single-use products that are used for mere minutes, and then discarded. And while plastic might break down into smaller pieces, it takes hundreds of years to fully decompose.
Instead, far too often, marine animals eat it.
Turtles believe plastic bags are jellyfish. Birds pick up pieces of plastic and feed them to their young. This plastic ingestion can cause intestinal blockages, malnutrition, toxic poisoning, and eventually death. Thousands of marine animals are killed every year by plastic pollution.
Donate $5 today and your gift will be TRIPLE MATCHED to help curb the plastic pollution that is ravaging our marine ecosystems. Your gift helps us reach our critical $400,000 goal.
Please hurry: time is not on our side. If nothing changes by 2050, scientists believe plastic pollution in the ocean could weigh more than all of the ocean's fish.
Your 3x matched donation right now will fuel our work in 2023 to make sure that never becomes our reality.
Thanks for your support.
Sincerely,
Darby Hoover
Sr. Resource Specialist, NRDC
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