Degradation plastics’death

The prevention of marine environment pollution, for instance, is regulated by the MARPOL Treaty. This international convention prohibits the disposal of any plastics waste in the oceans, e.g., from ships or from offshore platforms. The International convention generated activities to check if biodegradable plastics used as an alternative to conventional polymers are suitable to be degraded in a marine environment [2]. A further problem exists from littering, where plastic items are washed away to the sea by rivers or blown by wind from tbe shores and can cause the death of numerous marine animals [3]. 

Plastic pollution in marine environments can result in the death of marine species that ingest it in the belief that it is a jellyfish, squid or other translucent, amorphous organism. In the animal s gut, biodegradable plastics will not degrade rapidly and injury to the animal is hkely to remain an outcome. Turtles can die of starvation as plastic bags block the ahmentary canal. 

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