(par 7.4.2.3.1.1) Microplastic pollution gets inside crabs via gills
Microplastics lodge in crab gills and guts https://www.sciencenews.org/article/microplastics-lodge-crab-gills-and-guts Marine creatures absorb plastic particles not only through food but via respiration PERISHABLE PLASTIC Shore crabs can trap microplastic pollution in their gills, a lab study finds. By Nsikan Akpan Crabs sop up microplastic pollution via their food and gills, researchers have found in a laboratory study. The […]
par 7.4.2.3.1.1 Beach development causing a stink
Beach development causing a stink https://www.iol.co.za/news/beach-development-causing-a-stink-1406099 Written by John Yeld Cape Town – The environmental chickens are coming home to roost at Big Bay, Cape Town, where extensive development approved in highly controversial circumstances a decade ago has resulted in negative impacts that include major causes of concern for human health. Such impacts have included […]
(par 7.4.2.3 ) Waste (taken from Wikipedia)
Waste http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia People who earn their living by collecting and sorting garbage and selling them for recycling (waste pickers), Payatas, Philippines. Waste and wastes implies unwanted or unusable materials. The term is often subjective (because waste to one person is not necessarily waste to another) and sometimes objectively inaccurate (for example, to send scrap metals to a landfill is to […]