Factoid/2010/03/25
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Plastics in the Ocean Moving up the Food Chain
- "...when exposed to sunlight it [plastics in the ocean] photo-degrades, breaking down into smaller and smaller particles, and finally to "nurdles", ...[which] are very absorbent, and soak up waterborne toxins, ...These nurdles, now saturated in poisons, are eaten by filter-feeders at the very bottom of the food chain, and then make their way up it." - excerpt from this Telegraph article. Also see Surfrider Foundation's Rise Above Plastics and the Algalita Research Foundation sites.
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