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More than a hundred different marine species in the Mediterranean ingest plastic every day

According to the study carried out by several researchers, there are at least 116 species which eat plastics. Of these, 59% are fish that end up on our tables such as red mullet, cod, tuna, sea bream, sardines, shrimp and prawns. The remaining 41% includes other mammals, crustaceans and molluscs, as well as jellyfish, turtles and birds.