New More Plastic In The Ocean Than Fish
Pics. Pauly and zeller told the washington post that the underestimation of how much humans were fishing means the u.n. 8.3 billion tonnes, according to a recent study in the journal science advances but after that, things get awfully murky.
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Federal environment minister catherine mckenna says that there will be more plastic than fish, by weight, in. So much of this plastic is ending up in the ocean that in just a few years, we might end up with a pound of plastic for every three pounds of fish in the getting waste management right improves more than ocean health. Plastic could outweigh fish in the ocean by 2050, an environmental group has warned as it launched a lawsuit against the top plastic polluters.
It might be sensationalist and blown out of proportions but fish will be overfished so their population will reduce, they'll get killed by polution and plastic will find it's way into the sea.
Fish in the north pacific ingest 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic each year, which can cause intestinal injury and death and transfers plastic up the food. That is what a new report from the world economic forum and ellen macarthur foundation warns. So much of this plastic is ending up in the ocean that in just a few years, we might end up with a pound of plastic for every three pounds of fish in the getting waste management right improves more than ocean health. It might be sensationalist and blown out of proportions but fish will be overfished so their population will reduce, they'll get killed by polution and plastic will find it's way into the sea.
