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| Trash on Piratininga Beach, RJ, Brazil |
I've been writing about how much trash is on the beaches here, so I thought I'd upload a photo - the one below allows you to zoom in and out. Take a look at how many small plastic particles there are. This is what birds and fish are eating. Actually, right after it took this photo I watched a seagull eat a small piece of plastic - it looked like it may have been part of some sort of plastic wrapping.
Plastic has no end. It always persists. It is just broken down into smaller components, even when it is microscopic it is still plastic. Plastic also leaches toxins out of the water like a sponge. And this is what fish eat, this is what birds eat, this is even what we eat. And did you know that there are vast areas of ocean where plastic particles far outnumber plankton particles. This is a huge problem.
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