Worse. As part of my oceanic plastics clean-up project at Tongareva Atoll ~ funded by Australian High Commission in Wellington ~ thank you ~ I'm making a poster on various health impacts (including ecosystem & biosphere levels). Only yesterday I read a study about persistent organic pollutants (POPs) accumulating in fish tissue ~ the real impacts are already going to be horrendous. My feeling is it's too late (Eriksen et al 2014 estimated 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the ocean); (Jambeck et al 2015 report about 8 million tonnes added to the ocean each year). Homo plasticus !!! #plastic
My concern here is we are a subsistence way-of-life (not a cash economy) gathering fish and shellfish from the ever-present plastic pollution in ourMy concern here is we are a subsistence way-of-life (not a cash economy) gathering fish and shellfish from the ever-present plastic pollution in our lagoon; none of that came from our atoll by the way. All the mothers breast-feed, so toxicants are passed on to the suckling infants. More ...