Why Animals eat plastic

[Catherine]

I don't think charging for the bags has helped. People feel that once they have paid for a bag they can dispose of it any way they want.

I don't know what would help. People do not take the problem seriously. They routinely toss plastic garbage anywhere they want. The flush all kinds of weird things into out water system. They just don't see the connection between their actions and serious ocean problems.
I wonder if they will see a connection when they develop health issues from plastic they have ingested from the bodies of fish they are eating.

It is really an emergency, but people are not reacting. They want to think that pollution is someone else's problem or it doesn't really exist anyhow. If the oceans die we will wish we had done something better.