Factoid/2014/07/03
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We Can't Account for Most of the Plastic in the Ocean
- "He suspects that a lot of the missing plastic has been eaten by marine animals. When plastic is floating out on the open ocean, waves and radiation from the sun can fragment it into smaller and smaller particles, until it gets so small it begins to look like fish food—especially to small lanternfish, a widespread small marine fish known to ingest plastic." - excerpt from article in Science.
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