An elderly Brazilian man accidentally found a turtle with a plastic bag wrapped around its neck
A pensioner came across a turtle with a plastic bag wrapped around its neck in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Tuesday. He jumped into the sea to rescue it, only to find it dead. Biologists said the turtle was most likely suffocated by the plastic bag. According to the United Nations Environment Program, 11 million tons of plastic waste enters the oceans every year, and thousands of Marine mammals die from eating or becoming trapped in plastic waste.