'Lots' of dead turtles found on a beach in Piacabucu, Brazil |

Praia do Peba amanheceu com grande quantidade de tartarugas mortas

The Peba Beach in the city of distant Piaçabuçu Maceio, 135 km one of the postcards of Alagoas presents on the morning of Tuesday, 03 a lot of dead sea turtles. The location near the mouth of the São Francisco River with a large area of continuous beach is used for spawning of sea turtles.

The problem requires the presence and IBAMA action to study the causes of mortality of sea turtles that is related to the large amount of garbage mainly peti bottles and plastic bags left by bathers on weekends.

Plastic bags as useful shopping days in the supermarket can be the main reason for the increased mortality of sea turtles that come to Alagoas coast.

In the last three months, more than twenty animals were found stranded on the beaches of Maceio and 90% of them had as cause of death observed ingesting household waste.

The turtles, which are spawning from are the main targets of this pollution that reaches the seas. When they reached the coast to leave their eggs, they end up confusing the plastic with jellyfish, their favorite food. The problem is that the plastic takes 200 years to decompose in nature and is not digested by the animal that dies by suffocation or starvation (stop feeding) that feels constant satiety.

For biologists and environmentalists, plastic today has been a big problem for the preservation of the environment and one of the great enemies of marine life, especially turtles. Surveys show that in Brazil, one billion plastic bags are distributed by supermarkets, it means 33 million per day and 12 billion per year, or 66 plastic bags for each Brazilian in just one month.