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Birds are Eating More Plastic
- "...plastic ingestion has increased since the 1980s, for both the Newell’s shearwater and the wedge-tailed shearwater. In fact, the frequency of plastic ingestion in Newell’s shearwater drastically increased from 11 percent in 1987 to 50 percent in the recent study." - excerpt from article about a Surfrider-funded study in The Garden Island. Read the study. Another study indicates birds may be attracted to plastic by the smell.
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