What we have done: plastic sea

Hello, my friends. Today I want to discuss an important topic. Mankind has achieved great success in the industry and one of these results is plastic. Nowadays it is impossible to imagine the world without plastic and plastic products. According to Wikipedia, plastic appeared recently - about 150 years ago. Inventor Alexander Parkes of Birmingham got plastic at first. Using in their experiments, nitrocellulose, alcohol and camphor, a substance which is called parkesine and first showed it at the international exhibition in London in 1862. Do you know that about 50 years ago, humanity invented a plastic bottle? Nowadays, millions of bottles are produced and thrown out every year. And every year the waste from plastic bottles and packages grow, due to the fact that there is an increasing number of products that are Packed in plastic packaging.A huge amount of garbage in the streets of the city make you think about the question: where to put plastic waste? I know this environmental problem has long been known and discussed. But until recently, I had no idea how widespread this environmental disaster was. I think you are too.

The following video is posted on youtube.

Video evidence of irreversible ecological disaster. Under water, instead of accumulations of fish, jellyfish and other inhabitants of the sea floats garbage. From organics there only a small number of branches and leaves, and basically the diver surround packages, straws, bottles, glasses and fragments of the various products made of plastic. The problem of plastic is in Bali for a long time and is acute. In December, even signs were installed on the beaches, in which the local authorities apologized to tourists for the mountains of garbage. Look at the photo and you will understand what I'm talking about:

Scientists have long been concerned about the problem of plastic contamination. Plastic entering the ocean, swallowed by fish, birds and other marine life. What is the result?

It turns out, that the plastic particles were found in the digestive tracts of turtles, seabirds, fish, whales and plankton, and now he got to the seals. Can you imagine that? In the course of studying the consequences of pollution of the world ocean with plastic, scientists have long said that microparticles can be transmitted through the food chain to the highest predators. They have already been found in whales eating plankton, and now received the first examples of "travel" plastic from fish to seals.

The study was conducted by biologists from the research center Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Scientists have put a 16-week experiment involving 31 long-tailed seals. Animals were fed Atlantic mackerel (lat. Scomber scombrus) caught in different parts of the world. Based on the analysis of seals feces, plastic particles were found in almost half of the cases. In order to understand the volume of plastic in fish organisms, the researchers separately considered three dozen mackerels. Microfibres and debris were found in ten of them, that is, 30% of marine fish have already experienced plastic pollution. At the same time, some fragments turned out to be relatively large-up to 6 mm.

The possibility of transferring plastic up the food chain has not been questioned before, but there was not enough evidence. Scientific work is filling this gap. In addition, she once again emphasizes the importance of the problem: it is obvious that the fish "supplies" plastic not only seals and other marine predators, but also to man. Link to the full article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749117343294

Maybe people will start to think about this ecological disaster and understand how far it has come. Thanks for reading!

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