Feb 11 - Plastics in Our Food Chain

ABC News covered a story today reporting that plastics and paracites have been found in fish caught in the North Pacific. Marine life is eating the plastic debris in the North Pacific Gyre, and there is a possibility that harmful chemicals often found in plastic, like Bisphenol-A (BPA), are being absorbed. Multiple small expeditions have gone out to the Pacific's debris field recently and have recorded that the size of the toxic soup has doubled.

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