The scientists behind a new paper, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, have discovered a new disease in seabirds, caused directly by exposure to plastics.
The advancement of a report to be published later this year shows that unless the measures against plastic are resounding, this type of contamination will reach worrying levels in the next three decades.
Up to 75% of everything brown bears eat comes from garbage, which means that their frequency of scavenging is much higher than eating wild plant matter, crops, and even hunted sheep,”