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The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals – and you (www.theguardian.com)

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Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and the organs of Antarctic penguins. But how do they travel through the world, and what do they do to the creatures that carry them? Here is the story of how plastic contaminates entire ecosystems – and even the food we eat

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'm assuming they're reusing all the DDT bioaccumulation diagrams for this that I was taught using when I was in school.