Green: Ridding the Seas of ‘Plastic Soup’

Monday, May 23, 2011 - 08:10 in Biology & Nature

The problem is not just one of unsightliness, or of sea life getting caught up in plastic grocery bags or choking on plastic bottle tops or cigarette lighters. There are also the tiny fragments formed by disintegrating items, which threaten to contaminate the food chain.

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