It mentions how plastics degrade size-wise but don't biodegrade, they just get smaller. This means that smaller and smaller sea animals consume them and get terminally constipated and die, there's billion of these tiny plastic shreds just under the water surface or on the seabed.
(I just read an article on numerous starving seabirds in California, petrels and fulmars. Perhaps they ate these floating plastics and it interfered with digestion of foods.)
(San Francisco CA has just recently forbidden grocery stores from using plastic bags for containers, now only paper and canvas is allowed.)
Sir Alister Hardy, marine biologist and discoverer of the Aquatic Ape Theory is mentioned, he invented an algae collection system towed behind a boat gathering samples used in the 60's. These samples were stored, 1/2 were analysed, the other 1/2 are now being compared to today's samples to see amount of micro-plastics and nano-plastics trapped in the algae today that were not in sea water 40 years ago.
NPR : Imagining a World Without Humans
[PLEASE, NO POLITICAL BLAME GAMES IN THIS THREAD]
DDeden
(I just read an article on numerous starving seabirds in California, petrels and fulmars. Perhaps they ate these floating plastics and it interfered with digestion of foods.)
(San Francisco CA has just recently forbidden grocery stores from using plastic bags for containers, now only paper and canvas is allowed.)
Sir Alister Hardy, marine biologist and discoverer of the Aquatic Ape Theory is mentioned, he invented an algae collection system towed behind a boat gathering samples used in the 60's. These samples were stored, 1/2 were analysed, the other 1/2 are now being compared to today's samples to see amount of micro-plastics and nano-plastics trapped in the algae today that were not in sea water 40 years ago.
NPR : Imagining a World Without Humans
[PLEASE, NO POLITICAL BLAME GAMES IN THIS THREAD]
DDeden
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