Factoid/2004/11/10
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Seabirds Getting Sick from Eating Plastic in the Oceans
- "In a scientific paper soon to be published, a senior research scientist with the Department of Environment and Conservation, Dr David Priddel, says densities of plastic at sea may be as high as 4000 pieces per square kilometre, and what makes them so hazardous to birds is that they resemble crustaceans and fish eggs." - excerpt from the article from the Sydney Morning Herald, "An ocean of old plastic stuck in seabird craws," by James Woodford, November 3, 2004.
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