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Titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens. Biting a plastic bottled lid. A lot
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
Titan triggerfish, Balistoides viridescens. Biting a plastic bottled lid. A lot of sea animals ingest plastic garbage because they think it's edible food. Huge amount of plastic garbage at the surface and in midwater. Thilafushi Island. Maldives Digital composite. Composite image
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Contamination. Troops of plastic and microplastics that reach the beaches carried by the winds and the tides. Canary Islands.
© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto
© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto
Contamination. Troops of plastic and microplastics that reach the beaches carried by the winds and the tides. Canary Islands.
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Contamination. Troops of plastic and microplastics that reach the beaches carried by the winds and the tides. Canary Islands.
© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto
© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto
Contamination. Troops of plastic and microplastics that reach the beaches carried by the winds and the tides. Canary Islands.
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Contamination. Troops of plastic and microplastics that reach the beaches carried by the winds and the tides. Canary Islands.
© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto
© Sergio Hanquet / Biosphoto
Contamination. Troops of plastic and microplastics that reach the beaches carried by the winds and the tides. Canary Islands.
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Microplastics on table salt. Tiny fragments and filaments of plastic inside and among cuisine salt crystals photographed with 5x enlargement.
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
Microplastics on table salt. Tiny fragments and filaments of plastic inside and among cuisine salt crystals photographed with 5x enlargement. Polyester microfibres. The presence of microplastics in the seawater has been revealed as hazardous. Three possible toxic effects of plastic particle have been indicated: first due to the plastic particles themselves, second to the release of persistent organic pollutant (POPs) adsorbed to the plastics and third to the leaching of additives of the plastics. We are eating plastic particles every day indirectly by ingesting contaminated marine animals and directly through the cooking salt with which we season the food. Saline salt collected from the west coast of Portugal.
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Microplastics on table salt. Polyester microfibres. Tiny fragments and filaments of plastic inside and among cuisine salt crystals photographed with
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
Microplastics on table salt. Polyester microfibres. Tiny fragments and filaments of plastic inside and among cuisine salt crystals photographed with 5x enlargement. The presence of microplastics in the seawater has been revealed as hazardous. Three possible toxic effects of plastic particle have been indicated: first due to the plastic particles themselves, second to the release of persistent organic pollutant (POPs) adsorbed to the plastics and third to the leaching of additives of the plastics. We are eating plastic particles every day indirectly by ingesting contaminated marine animals and directly through the cooking salt with which we season the food. Saline salt collected from the west coast of Portugal.
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Microplastics on table salt. Tiny fragments and filaments of plastic inside and among cuisine salt crystals photographed with 5x enlargement. The
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
Microplastics on table salt. Tiny fragments and filaments of plastic inside and among cuisine salt crystals photographed with 5x enlargement. The presence of microplastics in the seawater has been revealed as hazardous. Three possible toxic effects of plastic particle have been indicated: first due to the plastic particles themselves, second to the release of persistent organic pollutant (POPs) adsorbed to the plastics and third to the leaching of additives of the plastics. We are eating plastic particles every day indirectly by ingesting contaminated marine animals and directly through the cooking salt with which we season the food. Saline salt collected from the west coast of Portugal.
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Marine fish larvae eat microplastics. Small pieces of plastic, termed “micro plastic” in the oceans derive mainly from degradation of
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
Marine fish larvae eat microplastics. Small pieces of plastic, termed “micro plastic” in the oceans derive mainly from degradation of big plastics such as beach littering, but also from sources of direct emission from example beauty scrubbers and synthetic sand-blasting. These micro plastics are ingested by marine animals –mistaking them for plankton – or via prey. When ingested, the particles affect the animals due to their physical properties and their chemical properties (the plastic polymer itself and additives) and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) gathered on their surface. The latter because micro plastics have a large hydrophobic surface, which accumulate POPs to a great extent, on micro plastics than in the surrounding water.
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Marine fish larvae eat microplastics. Small pieces of plastic, termed “micro plastic” in the oceans derive mainly from degradation of big plastics
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
Marine fish larvae eat microplastics. Small pieces of plastic, termed “micro plastic” in the oceans derive mainly from degradation of big plastics such as beach littering, but also from sources of direct emission from example beauty scrubbers and synthetic sand-blasting. These micro plastics are ingested by marine animals –mistaking them for plankton – or via prey. When ingested, the particles affect the animals due to their physical properties and their chemical properties (the plastic polymer itself and additives) and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) gathered on their surface. The latter because micro plastics have a large hydrophobic surface, which accumulate POPs to a great extent, on micro plastics than in the surrounding water.
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Plastic fish food. Concept image of a fish cut in half with a knife and spilling microplastics from within. The image is intended to
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
Plastic fish food. Concept image of a fish cut in half with a knife and spilling microplastics from within. The image is intended to illustrate the problem of pollution of the oceans by plastic garbage. We are eating plastic on our seafood. Contaminated fish and shellfish have been found everywhere from Europe, Canada and Brazil to China – and plastic-eating fish are now showing up in supermarkets. While most plastic has been found in the guts of fish, and would therefore be removed before eating, some studies have warned that microplastics, particularly at the nanoscale, could transfer from the guts to the meat (and, of course, we eat some species of small fish and shellfish whole). There is growing concern about toxins leaching – laboratory tests have shown that chemicals associated with microplastics can concentrate in the tissues of marine animals. Some commercially important species have seen the majority of their population affected. It confirmed that contamination has been recorded in tens of thousands of organisms and more than 100 species. Last year, the European Food Safety Authority called for urgent research, citing increasing concern for human health and food safety given the potential for microplastic pollution in edible tissues of commercial fish. Portugal
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Plastic fish food. Concept image of a fish served on a plate with other real food elements. Plastic fish and ships. We are eating plastic on our
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
Plastic fish food. Concept image of a fish served on a plate with other real food elements. Plastic fish and ships. We are eating plastic on our seafood. Contaminated fish and shellfish have been found everywhere from Europe, Canada and Brazil to China – and plastic-eating fish are now showing up in supermarkets. While most plastic has been found in the guts of fish, and would therefore be removed before eating, some studies have warned that microplastics, particularly at the nanoscale, could transfer from the guts to the meat (and, of course, we eat some species of small fish and shellfish whole). There is growing concern about toxins leaching – laboratory tests have shown that chemicals associated with microplastics can concentrate in the tissues of marine animals. Some commercially important species have seen the majority of their population affected. It confirmed that contamination has been recorded in tens of thousands of organisms and more than 100 species. Last year, the European Food Safety Authority called for urgent research, citing increasing concern for human health and food safety “given the potential for microplastic pollution in edible tissues of commercial fish”. Portugal
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Micro plastic debris on fish stomach. Portugal
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
© Paulo de Oliveira / Biosphoto
Micro plastic debris on fish stomach. Portugal
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Microplastics on the sandy beach, washed up on dark lava sand, Playa Famara, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe
© Martin Siepmann / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
© Martin Siepmann / imageBROKER / Biosphoto
Microplastics on the sandy beach, washed up on dark lava sand, Playa Famara, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe
