Stop the plastic threat-risk for animals and humans
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Whales that starve with a full stomach, because they have eaten indigestible plastic sheeting, seabirds, the strangulation in the steep walls of Heligoland in power residues, seals with centimeter deep wounds by plastic waste, which cut them deeper and deeper into the flesh. Plastic is durable, but in the course time porous and disintegrates into smaller and smaller fragments. In addition micro plastic from cosmetics and cleaning products, which comes with the sewage into rivers and oceans. The off invisible, tiny plastic parts swim long since in almost all waters and they attract toxins. Micro plastic entering the food chain , researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have an inventory of the Baltic and North Sea began, which is to clarify how high the plastic strain is with us. You do not have good news: In the North Sea already form first plastic carpets from microscopic particles. And that find their way into fish and crabs. The micro plastic thus enters the food chain and therefore at risk humans. Often plastic waste is so small that you can see it only under a microscope. From the sea, the so-called micro plastic spread through the food chain and through the air to man. Scientists are alarmed: "We can assume that micro Plastics are now to be found everywhere in the atmosphere," says Emeritus Professor Gerd love life of the Carl-von-Ossietzky University in Oldenburg. The expert for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine has been detected microscopically small plastic balls in honey and rainwater. The Federal Environmental Agency defines plastic parts with a size of less than five millimeters as micro plastic. It comes from several sources: In the sea of discarded plastic garbage decomposes over decades and even centuries often in microscopic parts. One problem is also fishing nets made ​​of plastic that are left behind in the water. Some manufacturers use plastic beads in personal care products, such as shower gels, scrubs and toothpastes. Most are grinding and abrasive particles to ensure a better cleaning. Many textiles, such as fleece jackets are made ​​of plastic - usually made ​​from recycled PET bottles. Per wash is about 2,000 plastic fibers are replacing, estimates the environmental group WWF. micro plastic absorbs harmful substances from the sea, for example, traces of fire protection products, insecticides, dyes and organic chlorine compounds. Many of the substances are suspected to be carcinogenic or hormonal effects. "This is a ticking time bomb," says Rolf Buschmann from the federal government for environmental and nature conservation (BUND). Scientific evidence for diseases caused by micro plastic humans did not exist. Experiments on mussels have shown that the particles become embedded in the tissue. There is then formed inflammation. We demand: Stop the plastic threat-.create stricter  laws  of waste from ships.

Links.http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/45_min/Die-Plastikbedrohung,sendung63600.html

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