Sentences with phrase «ingest microplastics»

«However, it is clear that marine organisms ingest microplastics, and that laboratory experiments show that this can result in harm,» Nerland says.

However, as they regularly migrate to the surface, we thought that they may ingest microplastics there,» explains Wieczorek.

Humans also ingest microplastics via food: they have already been detected not only in fish and seafood, but also in salt, sugar and beer.

A separate report, from Mark Anthony Browne on work performed at Plymouth University, shows that ingesting microplastic can also reduce the health of lugworms by delivering harmful chemicals, including hydrocarbons, antimicrobials, and flame retardants, to them.

Organisms are known to ingest microplastic particles, and many commercially important marine organisms are known to contain microplastics.

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The researchers plan further studies to learn more about how these fish are ingesting and spreading microplastics.

Researchers found a wide array of microplastics in fish stomachs — with a whopping 73 % of the fish having ingested the pollutants.

The team found a wide array of microplastics in the fish stomachs — with a whopping 73 % of the fish having ingested the pollutants.

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.

Plastic debris degrades into ever - smaller pieces, which means that a wider range of organisms can ingest this material, and particles of microplastic are now the most abundant form of solid - waste pollution on our planet.

The authors estimate using findings in zooplankton that juvenile salmon in the Strait of Georgia may be ingesting two to seven microplastic particles per day, and returning adult salmon are ingesting up to 91 particles per day.

Using this method, they estimate a humpback, which is a baleen whale, could ingest more than 300,000 microplastic particles per day.

Also recognizes the need for more knowledge and research on the source and fate of microplastics and their impact on biodiversity, marine ecosystems and human health, noting recent knowledge that such particles can be ingested by biota and could be transferred to higher levels in the marine food chain, causing adverse effects; 6.

«This accumulations of microplastics is being ingested by the largest of the filter feeders right down to the smaller organisims, the microorganisms at the bottom of the food chain.»

Filter feeders such as whales and whale sharks ingest large amounts of microplastic as the ocean becomes increasingly polluted with plastic debris.