According to scientists from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), the world’s soon there will be no sea birds, not try plastic, writes portal EurekAlert.

Every year in the oceans gets more than 4.8 million tonnes of plastic waste. Corks from bottles, plastic fibers of synthetic clothes are washed into the ocean of the city’s rivers and landfills. In the North Pacific there are giant whirlpool, where ocean currents bring everything collected on the way. Plastic floats, and travels through the ocean for hundreds of years.

Birds confused vivid detail with food or ingest them accidentally. This leads to weight loss, and even death to the birds. According to the study, today 90% of sea birds – albatrosses, petrels, penguins – ate plastic.

Since the beginning of the 1960s, when plastic was found in the stomachs of birds less than 5%, by 2010 the number of birds, try plastic, rose to 80%. Scientists predict that by 2050 the number will reach 99%. According to the study, the plastic will have the greatest impact in the Southern Ocean – off the coast of Australia, South Africa and South America.