Professor Hideshige Takada: by 2050 of 99 percent of sea birds will absorb plastic

Among 32 species of the sea birds selected from all over the world, the international team from 18 establishments in seven countries found out that to 52% of birds not only fir-trees of plasticity, but also accumulated chemical components of plastic in the bodies. "Around the world about 400 million metric tons of plastic are annually made, and the part from them gets to environment, finally gets to oceans. – the author-correspondent Hideshige Takada, professor of Laboratory of organic geochemistry (LOG) Tokyo university Rural economy and technologies tells. – When plastic floats on a surface of the sea or...