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Plastic Pollution

Roger B over 5 years ago

Having read the piece on plastic pollution in ET I wondered how many people were aware that one of the key papers on the effect of microplastics on fish was withdrawn because it was effectively made up.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/04/authors-retract-controversial-paper-on-dangers-of-microplastics-to-fish-microbeads
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/groundbreaking-study-dangers-microplastics-may-be-unraveling

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Roger

0 Simon Barker over 5 years ago

I can understand how turtles eating plastic bags, thinking they are jellyfish, would be a really bad thing.

But I have always wondered what's so bad about microplastics. Marine life must be eating bits of sand all the time, so why is a tiny speck of plastic worse than that?
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