Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...

MUROTO, Kochi Prefecture--An endangered leatherback sea turtle found dead in a fishing net in local waters here in June had swallowed two plastic bags, an autopsy of its stomach contents showed.

Are our turtles eating plastic? Is it bad for them ... making this one of the largest studies of marine turtles and plastic debris ever conducted. Plastic sheets — likely bits of bags and plastic wrap ...