BALLOONS POSE BIGGEST RISK FOR PLASTIC EATING SEA BIRDS

Balloons have been identiied as a major threat to the seabirds traversing the world’s oceans and mistakenly feeding on plastic. While soft plastics only accounted for 5 per cent of the plastics consumed by albatrosses and other birds, a new study found they were responsible for 40 per cent of deaths. Researchers at the University of Tasmania in Australia concluded that while harder shards tend to pass quickly through the gut, softer pieces