Newly rescued baby turtle in Sydney took 6 days to poop all the plastic it ate

According to the announcement of Taronga Wildlife Hospital in Sydney, Australia, they have just rescued a green sea turtle on Tamarama beach. Temporarily not talking about the injuries he encountered, there is a worrying point that he has eaten too much plastic. Until after 6 days, all this plastic is brought out through the waste line.

As said by the nurse taking care of this turtle, it should have been pooped when pooping, but here what was collected were all plastic pieces of all sizes, colors, sharp, sharp, hard shapes . Explaining this phenomenon, experts say that as soon as baby turtles are born, there is too much plastic around, so they instinctively eat and accumulate so much plastic waste in their stomachs.

This turtle is also very lucky, because when it was discovered that he lost a flipper behind, turned over and his shell was pierced in one place. Now his health is stable and is gaining weight again. However, to be able to return to the ocean, he will need several rounds of surgery and the installation of prosthetic legs, treatment time can last more than 1 year.

Although in Australia more than half of the states have adopted single-use plastic bans, the severity of this does not seem to outweigh the rate of discharge. Worldwide, about 8 million tons of plastic are released into the ocean each year, mostly through estuaries, buried along beaches or released by fishing boats. Even one of the most remote islands, Henderson Island, recorded nearly 38 million pieces of plastic after testing on the island's beaches.