🌊 Plastic pollution is taking a serious toll on Florida’s marine life. Just a baseball-sized piece of plastic can kill an adult Florida manatee, and other marine wildlife are at similar risk, according to a new report from the Ocean Conservancy. A leader from Ocean Conservancy presented the findings at Apollo Beach Thursday. and called for action to control plastic use Ocean Conservancy’s Director of Florida Conservation, JP Brooker, discussed new data about the impact plastics are having on Florida’s marine life. According to the report, nearly 1 in 6 manatees had plastic in their digestive systems when they died, and 1 in 25 died from it. “They could be killed by something that’s relatively, you know, insignificant to them. But it’s a testament to the amount of plastic that’s showing up in our waterways, and that it does accumulate in these animals.” JP Brooker said. Brooker called out the state for preempting local governments from regulating single-use plastics, and call...