Many of those sea turtles-a group of animals whose life span can reach 100 years-are still alive today. But they no longer live in the world they were born into. Plastics are now ubiquitous, not just in oceans and on shores but also inside the animals that make those habitats their home.
And reversing it could take ages, beyond the likely expiration date of many modern species. Even if all plastic pollution into the ocean halted tomorrow, 'I think it would be at least a quarter of a millennium' before a sea turtle could even hope to be born into a plastic-free life, David Duffy, a wildlife-disease genomicist at the University of Florida, told me.
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