“Even Tiny Plastic Pieces Can Carry Pollution Throughout the Oceans.” by New York Times

Fish and birds can nibble or enhance complex in angling gear or different plastic jetsam, but what about tiny pieces of flexible in the ocean they emanate produce used to clean ships or decaying larger pieces of flexible. The atoms maybe transported by currents and eroded by organisms far from the beginnings, or they manage decrease below.

1.“The article focuses on a study on the pollution caused by plastic pieces in oceans. According to the study conducted by researchers including Emma L. Teuton of the University of Plymouth in England, even microscopic pieces of plastic can absorb pollutants. It also states that the study was published in the journal “Environmental Science & Technology.”

2. The particles could be carried by currents and eaten by organisms far from the sources, or they could sink to the bottom. The researchers estimated that even tiny amounts of plastic could significantly increase the concentration of phenanthrene in a common sediment-ingesting worm, the lugworm, and from there accumulate up the food chain.

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