Humans aren’t above eating plastic. Little kids try to do it all the time. And you know you’ve accidentally eaten some tiny bit of sticker that was still attached to a grocery store vegetable ...

Plastic isn’t food, but fish seem to eat it anyway—to the confusion of many researchers. As the 9.5 billion tons of plastic the world has produced since the 1950s makes its way into the world ...

More than 50 species of fish have been found to consume plastic trash at sea. This is bad news, not only for fish but potentially also for humans who rely on fish for sustenance.

It is known that humans are in fact eating these tiny plastic particles, but fish aren’t the only source. Bottled water , beer, honey, sea salt and tea bags have all been exposed as microplastic ...

Creatures in the deepest trenches of the sea are eating plastic. In six of the ocean's deepest crevasses, scientists found tiny shrimp-like creatures chomping on tiny bits of plastic.

As an agrarian civilization, almost all of what humans eat is farmed — with the notable exception of seafood.Aside from some farmed fish, most seafood we consume is still caught in the wild.Yet ...

Plastic starts to smell like food to fish after it has been in the sea, according to research that sheds new light on how the artificial, toxic substance is getting into the food chain.

It’s estimated that 90% of seabirds have plastic in their stomachs (Wilcox et al, 2015) and half of marine turtles have eaten plastic (Schuyler et al, 2014). Marine life can choke on plastic rubbish ...

As a researcher with the Department of Fisheries Malaysia studying marine plastic pollution, I spend my days documenting a ...

It is estimated that by 2050 there will be more plastic waste than fish in the sea. Indonesia is the second largest producer of plastic waste in the world after China.

Bacteria really eat plastic Laboratory experiment shows that bacteria really eat and digest plastic Date: January 23, 2023 Source: Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research ...

The WWF warns how increasing plastic waste is killing sea life, and if it continues to double in the next 15 years, there may well be more plastic than fish in the sea (by weight) by 2050.