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On a pristine Australian island the birds are so full of plastic they crunch (video inside) (www.abc.net.au)
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Last month, her team Adrift Lab found a bird that broke the record: almost a fifth of its entire body weight was plastic.

“To witness it first-hand, it is incredibly visceral. There is now so much plastic inside the birds you can feel it on the outside of the animal when it is still alive. As you press on its belly … you hear the pieces grinding against each other."

Since Dr Lavers’s first visit in 2008, she has witnessed an increase from about three quarters of birds carrying about five to 10 pieces of plastic, to every single bird having 50 or more pieces.

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[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 32 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)


Plastic production since the 50s.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 20 points 4 weeks ago

It's estimated that the total carbon contained by wild birds is 2.1 million tons. If we assume they're roughly 20% C, that equates to 10.5 million tons of bird mass. So the weight of humanity's annual plastic output is 45 times the combined mass of all wild birds on the planet.

That's pretty bleak doomer

[–] GiorgioBoymoder@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

seems bad. plastic consuming prokaryotes now please.