Ocean filled with plastic
10 May 2012 Ntvmsnbc
] is reported that the large Ocean has increased 100 times in the last 40 years in plastic waste.
Scripps realized that scientists from the Ocean Science Institute examined the seawater in the US California coasts. The findings of the research were published in the science journal called Biology Letters. Scripps research officer Miriam Goldstein said "This was a finding we did not expect." [
In the statement onBBC, Goldstein can meet various findings in the "North Pacific. He surprised us to see a huge increase in this one.
]Each kind of plastic waste, sun rays and waves that are not mixed and digged. The most obvious concern about this is the problem of digesting these small micro-mades by sea assets u. But the other unexpected effect is that Halobates Sericeus can leave eggs on the ocean surface for the sea beetle called Halobates Sericeus.
Goldstein, "We were waiting to find less Halobates beetle due to the toxic effect that will occur due to the plastic increase in the ocean, but it was the opposite. In the regions where plastic is more dense, we also looked at the increase in the count of this insect.
The data of the research was collected with the findings in California in 2009 and compared to data belonging to the 1970 and later. Comparison showed that the problem of plastic waste in north regions of the Great Ocean reaches the alarming dimension.
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