Thursday, May 24, 2007

Our oceans are turning into plastic . . . are we?

A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain. Scientists say these toxins are causing obesity, infertility . . . and worse.
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Anonymous said...

I read this article, and it's quite ominous--it's not so much the dead zones where weather and ocean current create great swathes of plastic pollution, it's how most plastic does not biodegrade but does breakdown into particulate matter, and various chemical compounds, and then gets sucked up into the food chain, and finally returns to be ingested by us eventually. Likely to have a deleterious effect on the DNA of all the living organisms so affected. Now that is scary.

3:30 PM
Mac said...

Thanks for posting a rational response rather than accusing me of being a "doom-monger." There's been a bit of that going around lately. :-)

9:20 PM

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