Sentences with phrase «plastic up the food chain»
It not only causes obvious physical harm to those creatures, but also passes the chemicals from the plastic up the food chain.
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Burke says the State Senate has failed to act more than a year after the Attorney General issued a report on the dangers posed by the plastic, which is likely being consumed by fish and wildlife and making it way up the food chain.
When animals eat the plastic, that poison could be going into the fish and traveling up the food chain to market species like tuna or swordfish.
That plastic can then move up the food chain as seabirds, seals and other marine predators eat those fish.
In some cases, this trash moves up the food chain, and studies at a California market found plastics in 25 percent of the fish sampled.
On the other, as their stomachs are so small, the plastic ingested by them doesn't leave, presenting the risk that potential toxics from plastics build up in the food chain as they get eaten by larger fish.
But single - use plastics, which you use for a few minutes and then discard, have created a major pollution problem - our ocean is filling up with plastic trash, choking fish and marine life and even entering the human food chain.
Plastic is now entering every level of the ocean food chain and is even ending up in the seafood on our plates.
And these toxic plastics can work their way up the food chain and onto our plates: We caught a fish in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre and found 16 pieces of plastic in its belly.
We then, consume those plastic particles and the toxins make their way up the food chain.
The UK's largest health food store chain announced that the stores will be giving up plastic bags as of the new year and customers will be sold jute and cotton carrier bags instead.
Plastic travels up the food chain, with the average seafood eater consuming 11,000 pieces of microplastic a year.
The researchers also intend to follow the plastic - eating worms up the food chain, and study the health of animals that prey on Styrofoam - munching mealworms.