Dead Baby Turtle Found With 104 Pieces of Plastic in Stomach

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By Jordan DavidsonOct 7, 2019, 12:21 pm176 pts
A baby sea turtle that washed ashore in Boca Raton, Florida last week had 104 pieces of plastic in it stomach. The plastic products ranged from wrappers to balloons to bottle labels to twist ties used to cinch trash bags, as the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. The Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton…

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