The amount of plastic floating about really is frightening. I was in Svalbard
in July and right up in the north where no-one lives, there were bits of
plastic on the beaches, at the base of bird cliffs, and at I think all the
places where we were able to go ashore. As we rushed to get back in our
zodiacs when a polar bear was sighted, there was a medication bottle and other
plastic on the ground too. Do we really need to have everything packaged in so
much plastic?
On 06/09/2012, at 8:32 PM, Carl Clifford wrote:
> Dear B-A,
>
> An excellent but scary item on the effects of plastic ingestion by sea birds
> and other sea life on the ABC program, Quantum, tonight. I was aware of the
> problem with the ingestion of larger pieces of plastic on seabirds, but
> researchers have found an even worse problem. It seems that plastic particles
> adsorb pollutants such as mercury and it then enters the food chain, ending
> up in the top predators, with us at the top. It has put me off seafood.
>
> The program is worth catching on iView.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Clifford
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