Plastic and its effect on the ocean

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Plastics are bad for the marine environment because....

- Plastic absorbs toxins that then bioaccumulate in the tissues of marine organisms. - they are ingested by birds, turtle and fish who think they are plankton - toxins imitate estrogen which effect fish populations turning males into females - plastic get embedded into the tissues of some marine organism

The part of the ocean that has the greatest concentration of plastic

Northern Pacific Gyre

Biomagnification is when...

concentrations of toxins increase up the food chain

why cant we use plastic to get rid of it?

it produces toxic chemicals known as dioxins

Pre-production plastic pellets are called

nurdles


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