{"id":246810,"date":"2024-03-12T20:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/bottle-caps-halloween-toy-and-other-plastics-found-inside-dead-sea-turtles-in-the-mediterranean\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T22:44:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T22:44:29","slug":"bottle-caps-halloween-toy-and-other-plastics-found-inside-dead-sea-turtles-in-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/bottle-caps-halloween-toy-and-other-plastics-found-inside-dead-sea-turtles-in-the-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottle Caps, Halloween Toy and Other Plastics Found Inside Dead Sea Turtles in the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> A loggerhead turtle in the Mediterranean Sea. Schnapps2012 \/ iStock \/ Getty Images Plus <\/p>\n<div class=\"article__trust \"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ecowatch\/assets\/img\/dist\/who-we-are-wrapper-6.webp\" class=\"article__trust-img\" alt=\"\"\/>  Why you can trust us  <\/p>\n<div class=\"article__trust-tooltip\">\n<p>Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a variety of large plastic pieces in the guts of dead sea turtles found in the eastern Mediterranean. Some of these plastic items include bottle caps and a Halloween toy in the shape of a witch finger.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by the University of Exeter and the North Cyprus Society for the Protection of Turtles (SPOT) examined 135 loggerhead sea turtles (<em>Caretta caretta<\/em>) that had died in North Cyprus, which has several nesting and foraging sites on beaches in the area. According to the study, many sea turtle deaths in the area are because of bycatch, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/sea-turtles-plastic-pollution-mediterranean.html\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at www.ecowatch.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loggerhead turtle in the Mediterranean Sea. Schnapps2012 \/ iStock \/ Getty Images Plus Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. 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