Local researchers said Thursday that fish in the middle depths of the North Pacific Ocean probably consume tens of thousands of tons of plastic debris each year. link
Plastics Entering the Human Food Chain
Acording to recent research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. Mary Crowley, founder of Project Kaisei, a nonprofit initiative that supported the Scripps research stated “Now that we know these toxins are getting into … our food chain, I believe it makes it even more important to do cleanup and to stop the flow of plastics in the global ocean.”