Littering is a potential danger to animals because it can cause them to die, eventually becomeing endangered, and even extinct. In thean article, “5 Ways Plastic Pollution Impacts Animals on Land” by Malorie Macklin, she states quotes that approximately, 101 million animals die each year because of litter and other pollutants. Litter consists of trash that can crucially affect our environment. Whether small or large, trash can have dramatic effects to our environment and animals that people need to realize. Humans sometimes carelessly throw away trash such as food wrappers, cigars, and plastic bottles in an animal’s habitat could end an animal’s life. The poisonous chemical, nicotine, cigarettes release can last an animal just a day because of the dangerous substance that can have a threatening ending.
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The attraction of trash to animals is a serious problem because of simple trash just laying around the streets, because they don’t know what it is. The article, “For Ocean animals, ‘Death by Plastic’ Could Be Occuring More Frequently” that is written by Elise Andrew states that, “Aside from just looking disgusting, all of this garbage poses a serious threat to wildlife who either confuse it as food or ingest it accidentally.”. Birds can mistakenly harm their young by using plastic to make their nest that can hurt the next generation. Macklin has also stated that for an animal’s head just to get stuck in a jar, it could cause serious problems such as overheating, suffocation, starvation, dehydrations, and eventually death. In conclusion, a lot of trash has been piled up around the world, killing harmless organisms that don’t have anything to do with
The attraction of trash to animals is a serious problem because of simple trash just laying around the streets, because they don’t know what it is. The article, “For Ocean animals, ‘Death by Plastic’ Could Be Occuring More Frequently” that is written by Elise Andrew states that, “Aside from just looking disgusting, all of this garbage poses a serious threat to wildlife who either confuse it as food or ingest it accidentally.”. Birds can mistakenly harm their young by using plastic to make their nest that can hurt the next generation. Macklin has also stated that for an animal’s head just to get stuck in a jar, it could cause serious problems such as overheating, suffocation, starvation, dehydrations, and eventually death. In conclusion, a lot of trash has been piled up around the world, killing harmless organisms that don’t have anything to do with