Some Sydney beaches and rivers are being described as "hotspots" for tiny fragments of plastic pollution created as debris breaks down, threatening marine life. But citizen scientists are helping to find solutions.
The highest was over 4000. Bits of plastic. Per square fucking metre. We are fucked dude.
There are microplastics in the deepest parts of the Earth and at its highest points. You could take a glass of seawater from anywhere on Earth and it'd be full of the same microplastics. It's everywhere inside our bodies, too. It causes brain damage in fish.
They're also the genesis of the Alex Jones myth about "turning the frickin frogs gay!"
BPA, in particular, can pass through frogs skin so they absorb it just by swimming in contaminated water.