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- - - - "The authors offer a very defensible framework for allowing us to measure the mortality risk resultant from plastic ingestion," said Prof Brendan Godley, from the University of Exeter, who wasn't involved with the study.
      - "It also points to the likelihood that plastic may be a key threat to the smallest life stages. This is of particular concern as pieces of plastics and baby turtles are both likely to be aggregated together in similar areas."
      - The authors of the new study want to raise awareness among consumers and political leaders about the threat from plastic and to encourage creative solutions to the issue. One option may well be a plastic tax or deposit scheme.
      - "Let's rethink our relationship with plastic," said Dr Hardesty.
      - "Let's put a true cost on plastic so they have a similar value to aluminium cans which we don't find lost in the environment, they get picked up and they don't get mismanaged and find their way out into the ocean," she added.
      - The study has been published in the journal Scientific Reports