Sentences with phrase «spread microplastics»
The researchers plan further studies to learn more about how these fish are ingesting and spreading microplastics.
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This means they could spread microplastic pollution throughout the marine ecosystem, by carrying microplastics from the surface down to deeper waters, affecting deep - sea organisms.
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Microplastic contamination may also spread from organism to organism when prey is eaten by predators.
They believe the results are an example of marine wildlife actually contributing to the spread of microplastics within the marine environment, rather than them simply being emitted from the water supply or forming through the physical and chemical break down of larger items.
Most plastic is extremely durable, leading to large plastic debris and «microplastics» to spread via currents to oceans from the Arctic to the Antarctic, a UN report published on Monday found.