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To: Bonefish who wrote (884063)	9/1/2015 12:42:13 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577009

Dissolving CO2 in oceans, and fertilizing them with farm run-off will do it every time. So will throwing plastic in them. abc.net.au Ninety per cent of the planet’s seabirds are having plastic for dinner, a new study has found. The findings are from the first global assessment of plastic ingestion by seabirds, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Toothbrushes, cigarette lighters, bottle caps and even a doll’s arm are just some of the items on a seabird’s dinner menu these days, says Dr Chris Wilcox of CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. Previous research suggests there are as many as 580,000 pieces of plastic polluting each square kilometre of the ocean at any one time. And there have been increasing reports about it being found in the guts of marine organisms including turtles, fish, dolphins and seabirds. [lots more, if interested]