Sentences with phrase «consuming microplastic»
When marine creatures consume microplastic, they're also getting a dose of toxins.
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If adults were to consume sea salt at the recommended nutritional level for the seasoning, they could potentially ingest 1,000 microplastic particles every year from that source.
They also found that fish that consume large quantities of microplastics are «smaller, slower, and more stupid» (and die at twice the rate of the others when exposed to predators) than ones living in clean water and, therefore, on healthier diets.
Plastic travels up the food chain, with the average seafood eater consuming 11,000 pieces of microplastic a year.
The researchers emphasized that microplastics pose danger from the planktons to the bigger creatures that consume them and even up to the humans sitting on top of the food chain.
Because most types of glitter are technically microplastics, they pose great harm to marine life when consumed.
Microplastics in the ocean are being consumed by corals in the Great Barrier Reef, but what impact could this pollution have on marine ecosystems?