Later that week, they are placed outside in the larger trashcan waiting for the trash haulers. As they are lifting the cans into the truck, the first paper bags falls out or blows out before they arrive. It sits in the alley for a couple of hours until a car comes along and whisks it down the road. Then a little gust of wind blows it across the intersection, then another car, then another gust of wind and finally it makes its way to the beach. The little plastic bag gets caught by the incoming tide and is dragged out to sea.
Water fills the bag making it look like a jellyfish.
A seal swims by thinking it looks very interesting and takes a bite out of it. Too late, the seal has already swallowed and there it will sit in the seals stomach for months, maybe years. You see our marine animals do not realize that plastic bags aren t natural. Our animals have been living for thousands of years in a world where everything is edible. The bag gets dumped out of the truck into the landfill area.