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Microplastics Can Spread Via Flying Insects, Research Shows (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Microplastic can escape from polluted waters via flying insects, new research has revealed, contaminating new environments and threatening birds and other creatures that eat the insects. Scientists fed microplastics to mosquito larvae, which live in water, but found that the particles remained inside the animals as they transformed into flying adults. Other recent research found that half of the mayfly and caddisfly larvae in rivers in Wales contained microplastics. The new study, published in the journal Biology Letters, used Culex pipiens mosquitoes, as they are found across the world in many habitats. The researchers found the larvae readily consumed fluorescent microplastic particles that were 0.0002cm in size. The larvae matured into a non-feeding pupa stage and then emerged as adult mosquitoes, which still had significant microplastic within them. The researchers are now studying if this damages the mosquitoes. Professor Amanda Callaghan, at the University of Reading, UK, says it is "highly likely" that other flying insects that begin as water larvae will also eat and retain microplastics. Furthermore, animals that feed on insects, like birds, bats, and spiders, are likely also consuming microplastics.
And Ozzy Osbourne eats bats, so he is consuming plastic too. Nobody eat Ozzy Osbourne, or you're just making the problem worse.
Plastic would be the less concerning pollutant you might pick up from eating Ozzy Osbourne.
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Between this and global warming, I'm pretty sure that there will not be a planet Earth in 50 years from now.
Earth will be a giant ball of plastic.
What if all this is planned? What if the blackhole at the centre of our galaxy is a cosmic-sized amazon package and all the stars orbiting it are just cosmic-sized packing peanuts.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
how plastic flowers are pollinated
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