{"id":545,"date":"2021-05-12T13:37:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/?page_id=545"},"modified":"2021-05-12T18:25:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:25:39","slug":"jellyfish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/gallery-of-images\/jellyfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Turtles Will Eat Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-548\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6643-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6643-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6643-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6643-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6643-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6643-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6643-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Katherine Page<\/p>\n<p>Dining hall takeout bags, string, scotch tape<\/p>\n<p>Plastic bags and other macro plastics closely resemble jellyfish, algae, and other species that make up a large portion of sea turtles\u2019 diets. 52% of the world\u2019s sea turtles have eaten plastic waste, and 22% of sea turtles that eat plastic only once are at risk of death: sharp plastics rupture internal organs and bags block the digestive system, leading to starvation.<\/p>\n<p>It is now widely known that non-degradable plastics and micro plastics are a serious threat to our ocean and its inhabitants, but still, as of 2020, 8.3 million tons are discarded in the sea yearly. The plastic bags used in \u201cSea turtles will eat them\u201d are made by one of EPI\u2019s \u201c100% degradable\u201d OxoGreen plastics, attempting to lower the risk of harm to our planet. Although the bags claim to be nature friendly, they are oxo-degradable, meaning that they break down into micro plastics and are still at risk of harming our ocean wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSea turtles will eat them\u201d is a call for transparency and genuine effort within plastic companies to use products that can protect the nearly 700 species that regularly ingest or get caught in plastic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-546\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6601-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"539\" \/> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-549\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6668-scaled-e1620843611213-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"547\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-547\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6609-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6609-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6609-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6609-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6609-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6609-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-550\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6685-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6685-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6685-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6685-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6685-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/earth-art-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/512\/2021\/05\/IMG_6685-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Page Dining hall takeout bags, string, scotch tape Plastic bags and other macro plastics closely resemble jellyfish, algae, and other species that make up a large portion of sea turtles\u2019 diets. 52% of the world\u2019s sea turtles have eaten plastic waste, and 22% of sea turtles that eat plastic only once are at risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1367,"featured_media":0,"parent":178,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-545","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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