Sea turtles, for example, often mistake flimsy, clear plastic bags for jellyfish. Other marine animals, including fish, gobble bits of rice-sized micro plastics broken down by sunlight and wave ...

52 percent of the animals tested contained microplastics. "Our study highlights how far plastic pollution travels, and how it contaminates every part of marine ecosystems. Given the level of pollution ...

Marine animals cannot digest debris and often ... in beach sediments and on the seafloor. However, what is clear is that plastic waste can be transported far and wide by currents and weather ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. Step inside London’s Grant ...

"The potential health effects of plastic ingestion on marine animals are largely unknown ... we have found in this remote location, it's clear that plastic pollution needs to stop at source.