All Turtles At Recovery Center Found To Have Ingested Plastic

Pictures shows the microplastics ingested by the turtles recovered in the La Tahonilla Wildlife Recovery Center, in Tenerife, Spain, undated. All the turtles treated at the centre have ingested plastic throughout their lives. (Cabildo Insular de Tenerife/Zenger)

A worrying new report has shown that all turtles treated at an animal recovery center in Tenerife have ingested plastic.

Plastic traces were found in stool samples from every turtle at the La Tahonilla Centre for the Recovery of Wild Fauna in San Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain. The recovery center said that the probability of a turtle dying increases by 20 percent if it ingests a piece of plastic.