Hi,
Like all of these things, just look it up on Google. However another
good scource of information is Wikipedia. On this subject try this for
a start.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
The big problem is that it doesn't degrade so much as gets broken up
into smaller and smaller fragments until it can be ingested and enter
the food chain where it inevitably starts killing organisms right up the
chain.
Cheers???
Andrew
Peter Shute wrote:
Do you have any links to any articles? I guess I imagined that all the
plastic out there is supermarket bags, and that it's too big to be
dangerous to a bird, but I suppose that isn't true.
Peter Shute
wrote on Friday, 8 August 2008 1:15
PM:
Mostly death by ingestion. From memory, chicks are affected as well.
There's been a fair bit in the northern hemisphere press on the
subject over the last few months.
Regards, Laurie
On 08/08/2008, at 12:50 PM, Peter Shute wrote:
I didn't know that plastic was killing significant numbers of
seabirds. Are you referring to deaths by entanglement, or do they
swallow bits of it as well? Any idea which species it is mainly
affecting?
Peter Shute
wrote on Thursday, 7 August 2008
7:32 PM:
That is only a drop in the ocean, pardon the pun, with the Sydney
Sunday Magazine estimating that plastic kills more than a million
seabirds, 100,000 whales seals and turtles etc plus an article that
the bush meat trade in Africa is pushing most African primates to
extinction, so humans are a non caring destructive lot.
Cheers Chris
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