Plastic Micro-Particle Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in Pacific

Re:Plastic Micro-Particle Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in ... by tjbiddle on Monday July 31, 2017 @05:00PM (#14895853)

You're right - this is misleading; because it's worse!

Micro-particles are much worse than a complete piece of plastic floating around, it means that's it's broken down to the point where smaller organisms (Such as - I don't know, those that create oxygen for us to breathe). These organisms are highly susceptible to these plastics and it is incredibly toxic to them. They create way more oxygen then most people are aware of.

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Re:Plastic Micro-Particle Patch Bigger Than Mexico Found in ... by losteric on Monday July 31, 2017 @06:20PM (#14896383)

Those microorganisms are the grass and bugs of the ocean, the entire food chain depends on them.

What happens when krill eats microorganisms that ate plastic? What happens to the blue whales that eat the krill, or the yellowfin tuna that eat the schooling fish that eat these microorganisms?

Remember DDT? This could be so much worse.

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