“About 90 percent of seabirds today have plastic in their bodies, according to researchers who point out that there are 360,000 pieces of plastic for every square mile in most of the world’s oceans.
“The amount of plastic ingestion by seabirds has dramatically increased in just the past few decades — 10 percent of seabirds were found to have plastic in their guts in the 1980s.
“The latest findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“This really is an issue that concerns every single person, and their daily habits,” biologist Boris Worm of Dalhousie University…”
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