Survey Finds Microplastics in the Guts of All Seven Sea Turtle Species
Plastic is all around us — in our landfills , in our oceans , and even in the abdomen of some of Earth ’s most vulnerable creatures . For a new paper in the journalGlobal Change Biology , researchers tick off the gut of 102 deceased ocean turtle , some of which belong to critically jeopardize coinage , and establish that all of them tested confirming formicroplastics . For the study , UK - free-base investigator from the University of Exeter , Plymouth Marine Laboratory , and Greenpeace Research Laboratories studied turtles that had expire after being stranded or accidentally catch by commercial-grade fishing mathematical process ....