Most young turtles caught off the coast of Queensland have ingested plastics, new research shows. Around 83 per cent of green turtles and 86 per cent of loggerhead turtles found off the coast of Queensland were found to have plastics within them, a study from Deakin, James Cook and Murdoch Universities found. James Cook University Professor Mark Hamann said plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing threats to marine wildlife. “Plastics now make up 80 percent of all marine debris and can be found everywhere, from surface waters to deep-sea sediments,” Professor Hamann said. “Plastic ingestion and entanglement, which can cause suffocation, has now been documented for every species of marine turtle.” Researchers examined the contents of the stomach, intestines, cloaca, and bladder of stranded or bycaught turtles from the Indian Ocean off Western Australia and the Pacific Ocean off Eastern Australia. Professor Hamann said one turtle found …