Toxic Plastic Archives - One Earth - One Ocean e. V. https://oneearth-oneocean.com/en/tag/toxic-plastic-en/ Eine weitere WordPress-Website Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:44:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://oneearth-oneocean.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-oeoo-logo-unterzeile-blau-1-32x32.jpg Toxic Plastic Archives - One Earth - One Ocean e. V. https://oneearth-oneocean.com/en/tag/toxic-plastic-en/ 32 32 Toxic Plastic Contaminates the Ocean, Beaches, and Can Poison Wildlife https://oneearth-oneocean.com/en/fish-ort-der-untersuchung-meer-location-of-research-sea-en/2013/toxic-plastic-contaminates-the-ocean-beaches-and-can-poison-wildlife/ https://oneearth-oneocean.com/en/fish-ort-der-untersuchung-meer-location-of-research-sea-en/2013/toxic-plastic-contaminates-the-ocean-beaches-and-can-poison-wildlife/#respond Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:31:26 +0000 https://oneearth-oneocean.com/2013/12/22/toxic-plastic-contaminates-the-ocean-beaches-and-can-poison-wildlife/ http://www.seaturtles.org/article.php?id=2543 Toxic Plastic Contaminates the Ocean, Beaches, and Can Poison Wildlife Posted by Chris Pincetich, Ph.D. on November 22nd, 2013 New scientific research has confirmed fears of the global impacts of marine plastic pollution to marine life and marine ecosystems. Plastic does adsorb toxic PCBs, PBDEs and PAHs* from seawater and does transfer toxicity from adsorbed chemicals to fish that ingest them, found a new study published in Nature yesterday. Experimental fish were fed a “clean” diet, a diet with bits of virgin plastic, or a diet with bits of plastic that had adsorbed contaminants while suspended in a marine environment near San Diego, California. Toxicologists then dissected the fish and determined that there was a significant transfer of PBDEs to the fish tissue from the plastic that had adsorbed marine contaminants, and that the livers of some fish developed cellular damage. This controlled experiment confirmed the discussions I have been leading for years on the potential eco-toxic impacts of marine plastic pollution to young, endangered sea turtles. Plastic can be a vector for increased pollutant exposure to fish, and likely sea turtles and other marine wildlife, but how bad is the overall contamination of plastic in the Pacific Ocean?

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