The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber bands and they can die.

这些鸟很容易误食塑料碎片或橡皮筋，然后死亡。

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For this work, titled "Truckload of Plastic", Von Wong and a group of volunteers collected more than 10,000 pieces of plastic, which were then tied together to look like they'd been dumped from a truck all at once.

对于这个名为“一卡车塑料”的作品，冯·黄和一群志愿者收集了1万多件塑料，然后将它们绑在一起，使其看起来就像是一下子从卡车上倾倒下来的样子。

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In places, there are a million pieces of plastic per square kilometre.

在某些地方，每平方公里甚至有100万件塑料垃圾。

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They have also found small pieces of plastic inside the stomachs of fish like mahi-mahi.

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Even more die from a lack of food or water after swallowing pieces of plastic.

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There also are lots and lots of extremely small pieces of plastic.

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Rather than dumb pieces of plastic, these skins are comparable to game cartridges on a Game Boy.

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Ms. BORDON-BILLIOT: It's just piles of metal and cars and tires and tractors, kid's toys, pieces of plastic.

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Who knew that tiny pieces of plastic bricks could have such an impact?

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