Nearly Every Seabird on Earth Is Eating Plastic

[David_42]

This is not good at all, the mass amount of waste we produce is disgusting.
Nearly Every Seabird on Earth Is Eating Plastic

So much plastic trash is flowing into the oceans that 90 percent of seabirds eat it now and virtually every one will be consuming it by 2050. That finding, revealed in a new study published this week, tracks for the first time how widespread plastics have become inside seabirds around the world.


“That was shocking,” says Chris Wilcox, a research scientist with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and lead author of the study. “Essentially, the number of species and number of individuals within species that you find plastic in is going up fairly rapidly by a couple percent every year.”

 

[TheOldSchool]

Either we learn to manage this, or Earth will cull our herd

 

[Mr. H.]

Marine life also consumes it. Some of it breaks down to the size of krill.

 

[David_42]

Marine life also consumes it. Some of it breaks down to the size of krill.

Not a good thing at all.

 

[skookerasbil]

nobody cares

 

[David_42]

nobody cares

I do, along with other environmentalists.

 

[skookerasbil]

nobody cares

I do, along with other environmentalists.

exactly my point..........= nobody cares s0n

 

[ScienceRocks]

We need to promote large scale recycling of plastic and fines for trashing our environment.

 

[David_42]

nobody cares

I do, along with other environmentalists.

exactly my point..........= nobody cares s0n

Wow, no wonder this planet is falling apart..

 

[ScienceRocks]

nobody cares

I do, along with other environmentalists.

exactly my point..........= nobody cares s0n

So you'd rather watch everything die and breath shitty air? Sometimes you have to care.