Sentences with phrase «eating microplastics»

POLLUTED POOP Giant larvaceans (Bathochordaeus stygius) appear to eat microplastics when exposed to them in underwater experiments.

Outi Setälä, the first author of the study and a senior researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute, says that scientists have known since the 1980s that zooplankton will eat microplastics.

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Microplastic contamination may also spread from organism to organism when prey is eaten by predators.

It is unclear how microplastics affect the organisms that eat them.

Work by Stephanie Wright from the University of Exeter found that if ocean sediments are heavily contaminated with microplastics, marine lugworms eat less and their energy levels suffer.

New studies have been showing that animals in the sea eat those plastic bits, commonly referred to as microplastics.

At NILU and Akvaplan - niva, the scientists are looking into both what happens to microplastics in the environment and how microplastics affect the organisms that eat it.

Eating lots of these animals tainted at this level could add 100,000 particles of microplastics to the human diet each year, Shi's team estimates.

Seafood, particularly shellfish, contains high concentrations of microplastics that may accumulate in your body after you eat these foods.

It is estimated that humans eat 11,000 pieces of microplastic that is hidden in the flesh of seafood annually.

«These microplastics absorb pollutants, are eaten by organisms, and enter the food chain, potentially affecting human health.»

Microplastics are known to disrupt our hormonal systems and we risk facing growing health problems if microplastics continue to enter our food chain, for example, through the seMicroplastics are known to disrupt our hormonal systems and we risk facing growing health problems if microplastics continue to enter our food chain, for example, through the semicroplastics continue to enter our food chain, for example, through the seafood we eat.

Those pieces of plastic in our local waterways break down into microplastics which can then be eaten or swallowed by sea life and fish.

Last week, Lund University reported that microplastics cross the blood - brain barrier to accumulate in the brains of fish, and this build - up may be related to behavioral disorders in fish, including slower eating and less exploration of their environments.