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As many as 12 million tons of plastic waste end up in the world's oceans every year.

It's according to a 2015 estimate in the journal Science.

Over time, wind and waves grind and chew that plastic trash into tiny bits of what's called

microplastic, which happen to be about the same size and shape as the microalgae that filter

feeders like oysters snack on, meaning oysters can ingest it.

To find out the effects of consuming the debris, researchers at the French Institute for Ocean

Studies raised oysters in water polluted with plastic microbeats, in concentrations similar to those observed

in field studies. The shellfish sucked up the six micrometer wide plastic particles

extremely efficiently, as they evolved to do with the tiny algae. Two months later, the oysters exposed to microplastics

produced half as many eggs and slower swimming sperm than did oysters that fed on algae alone.

Perhaps the researchers say because plastic interferes with the oyster's energy uptake,

and the offspring of the plastic eaters were also smaller and slower growing than the progeny

of control oysters. The study is in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The scientists say oysters will probably survive in spite of plastic pollution. They're still

prolific reproducers. But until we clean up our act, there's no question we're giving them a raw deal.

Thanks for the minute. For Scientific American's 60 Second Science, I'm Christopher in Dallata.

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