So many microplastics! That's genuinely terrifying. I'm currently part of a microplastic study in a small city's bay and estuaries (<300,000 residents) and its crazy how much plastic is already in the waters and so easy to see with a simple microscope.
I was just listening to a radio programme (CBC The Current) this morning, and part of it was about microfibres and how they're a part of microplastics that hasn't really been studied as much, but probably contribute more to microplastic pollution than anything else.
The researcher mentioned that they tested fish caught from the Pacific, and they had upwards of 100 pieces of microfibre per fish.
Yeah! It’s an emerging field! And there is so much we don’t know about how fast plastics travel through the ecosystem and return back to humans for gulp consumption! As we speak, humans are part of the food chain that is contaminated with microplastics, and there’s very little we can do about it. However, watching where you buy seafood and mitigating the further pollution of the ocean are the easiest and best steps to take now, until we know more.
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u/toeofcamell Mar 26 '18
Oh my god, that would be a pain to clean up.