The plastic killing fields

Continents of garbage afloat in the oceans are killing marine life and releasing poisons that enter the human food chain. Full Story »

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Russ Wellen
4.3
by Russ Wellen - Oct. 1, 2008

"They go to the ocean to fish but there ain't no fish - there's plastic. They then regurgitate it down the necks of their fledglings and it kills them. After the birds decompose, the plastic gets washed back into the ocean where it can kill again. It's a form of ghost fishing." Truly an apocalyptic scenario. What have we wrought?

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