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