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What happens to animals because of plastic trash in the ocean ?

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Fish, seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals can become entangled in or ingest plastic debris, causing suffocation, starvation, and drowning. ... Plastic waste kills up to a million seabirds a year. As with sea turtles, when seabirds ingest plastic, it takes up room in their stomachs, sometimes causing starvation.

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They suffocate and choke because of the plastic waste, they also feel trapped in there and sometimes smaller animals get stuck in there

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