据美国有关方面估计,每年商船队和渔船队要向海洋倾倒5200多万磅塑料包装材料,并丢失29800多万磅塑料捕鱼用具,其中包括鱼网,绳索和浮标等,致使世界各大海洋受到塑料污染的毒害。资料表明,每年约有100—200万只信天翁、海鸭、海鸥和海燕,因塑料缠身或吞食漂浮在海洋上的塑料残料而死亡,还有十万头海洋动物,如鲸鱼、海豚、海豹,海牛 According to estimates by the U.S. authorities, each year, the merchant fleet and fishing fleet dump more than 52 million pounds of plastic packaging materials to the oceans and lose more than 29.8 million pounds of plastic fishing tackle equipment, including fishing nets, ropes and buoys, causing the world’s major oceans Poisoned by plastic pollution. The data show that between 1 and 2 million albatrosses, sea ducks, gulls and petrels per year are killed by plastic-ridden or devouring plastic debris floating on the ocean. There are also 100,000 marine animals such as whales, dolphins and seals ,manatee