It’s terrifying to know that microbeads used in scrubs are just as bad pollutants as their bigger plastic “cousins”.
It’s possible fish are eating the pellets, believing them to be eggs, he added. That’s worrisome, because plastics tend to absorb pollutants such as PCBs, pesticides and motor oil. The pellets could therefore be poisoning the small fish that larger fish then prey on, and the larger fish are consumed by humans, posing a human health risk.
via CBC News thru @legalnomads.
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