Plastics can't like poison sponge
24 January 2013 Ntvmsnbc
Plastic wastes thrown into the sea can not be used as sponge of toxic substances...
The life in the sea threatens excessive fishing and acidization. But there is a greater threat. He also ‘plastic wastes’. ... The results of the research conducted by San Diego University, published in the Journal of Environmental Science & Technology (Environment Science and Technology) are stunning... Plastic waste itself is a problem but unfortunately no longer. [
The plastic waste thrown into the sea can not remove toxic substances in the sea, such as a sponge. It turned out that a plastic waste thrown on the sea in the research absorbs all the toxic substances around as a sponge, just for 44 months. This means great damage in food-food fish and sea creatures.
]Now the problem is not only the quantity of plastic waste thrown into the sea, how these wastes are in relation to other toxic substances in the sea...
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