I’m in Ottawa this week as an observer. Delegates must streamline the treaty draft and decide its scope to stop the rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution. Each day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the ocean. #PlasticsTreaty

Sharing my research at the UN Plastics Treaty negotiations: 52% of sea turtles have ingested plastic. 22% die after ingesting just one piece of plastic, and the mortality rate jumps to 50% when reaching 14 plastic items. #PlasticsTreaty #TurtleTuesday #SeaTurtles #Microplastics