Algilita Research Crew has Publicized New Findings

Posted on Friday, November 23rd, 2007

By ahedgehog

Alex Scholz

Marcus Eriksen of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation has now gone public with the findings of their last voyage, what before was only mentioned in conference. In 1999, they found that the weight of plastic was six times greater than that of all marine life on the ocean surface. What’s the news for 2007? After processing a handful of samples from this recent voyage, the estimates are 30 to 1. That’s a five-fold increase in less than a decade, and for those of you who may have already appreciated the black humor of Watch This – No Don’t, the results are alarming. Basically, every bit of plastic ever produced seems to be staying with us. The seas are drowning in plastic and there is every reason to believe (not to be an alarmist) that toxins are bio accumulating and entering the food chain causing obesity, infertility…and worse…, for example, the overarching environmental implications of so much plastic building up with no end in sight.

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