Beer, Drinking Water And Fish: Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere : The Salt Plastic trash less than 5 millimeters long is in the things we eat and drink, and the air we breathe.
She studies how plastic works its way into the food chain, from tiny plankton to fish larvae to fish, including fish we eat.
The plastic particles go into beakers of water containing fish larvae from fathead minnows, the test-animals of choice in marine toxicology.
Plastic can also get into fish tissue, particularly plastic fibers from clothing such as fleece.
She found plastic in Indonesian fish guts, but no fibers, suggesting that fish bodies tell a story about what kind of plastic resides in local waters.
Plastic also attracts other chemicals in the water that latch onto it, including toxic industrial compounds like polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. Plastic becomes a chemical Trojan horse.
"There's tons." Plastic comes in many forms, with a wide variety of chemical additives depending on how the plastic is used.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/08/20/636845604/beer-drinking-water-and-fish-tiny-plastic-is-everywhere?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits
She studies how plastic works its way into the food chain, from tiny plankton to fish larvae to fish, including fish we eat.
The plastic particles go into beakers of water containing fish larvae from fathead minnows, the test-animals of choice in marine toxicology.
Plastic can also get into fish tissue, particularly plastic fibers from clothing such as fleece.
She found plastic in Indonesian fish guts, but no fibers, suggesting that fish bodies tell a story about what kind of plastic resides in local waters.
Plastic also attracts other chemicals in the water that latch onto it, including toxic industrial compounds like polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. Plastic becomes a chemical Trojan horse.
"There's tons." Plastic comes in many forms, with a wide variety of chemical additives depending on how the plastic is used.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/08/20/636845604/beer-drinking-water-and-fish-tiny-plastic-is-everywhere?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits
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