Many of them finish adult in landfills, where they can lay for hundreds of years, potentially leaking pollutants into a dirt and water. They also burden charge drains and jam recycling equipment. Countless tons of them are floating around in a oceans, and pieces of them can be found in a stomachs of failing or passed sea turtles and whales.
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