Ocean Plastic Particles Could Get in Gills
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🗓️ 28 July 2014
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| 0:36.8 | There are now at least five major garbage patches in the world's oceans, |
| 0:41.0 | and much of that trash is plastic. But last month |
| 0:44.0 | researchers said they can only account for 1% of the plastic they'd expect to find in |
| 0:48.3 | the oceans. So where the rest of it go? Well, animals eat some of it. |
| 0:53.8 | Plastics been found in turtles, seabirds, fish, plankton, shellfish, |
| 0:58.2 | even bottom feeding invertebrates. |
| 1:00.4 | But there's another way sea creatures might be accumulating plastic, by sucking up tiny plastic particles with their siphons and gills. |
| 1:08.0 | Researchers added common shore crabs, carcinous-mainis, to tanks of seawater containing millions of tiny plastic particles, |
| 1:15.2 | just 10 microns in diameter. After 16 hours, all the crabs had plastic lodged in their gills. |
| 1:21.6 | And the particles stuck around for up to three weeks too. |
| 1:25.0 | The results are in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. |
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