Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing

sciencehabit writes Millions of tons. That's how much plastic should be floating in the world's oceans, given our ubiquitous use of the stuff. But a new study (abstract) finds that 99% of this plastic is missing. One disturbing possibility: Fish are eating it. If that's the case, "there is potential for this plastic to enter the global ocean food web," says Carlos Duarte, an oceanographer at the University of Western Australia, Crawley. "And we are part of this food web."

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Re:Plastic is not _only_ plastic

[kimvette]

> plus the added chemicals, such as the aromatics (which is largely benzene group) that were formed when that beef was put over the fire

I eat steak rare (just walk it by the fire please!), you insensitive clod! Putting fire to it more than a few seconds ruins it. >_