According to National Geographic, a shocking 90% of seabirds are ingesting plastic as of 2015 (National Geographic, 2015) If that doesn’t tell you how severe the plastic pollution problem is in seabirds, I don’t know what will. With increasing plastic pollution and increasing number of plastics in oceans, it is highly likely that the proportion…

Now that we are aware of the complexities of the effects of plastics, what animals specifically are affected by plastic pollution? Well, hundreds of species of animals are affected by plastic pollution. But there are a number of species that are greatly affected than the rest. The short video below by CNN introduces plastic pollution…

In the previous post, we explored the obvious effects of plastic pollution on animals. However, the effects are not the same for microplastics. The effects seem to produce chemical/biological effects on animals. According to Prokić et al. (2019), microplastics can result in “oxidative damage”, modify “antioxidative system and metabolism” and “neurotoxic” impacts. These effects have…

In the previous post, I introduced macroplastics and microplastics. For today, let us focus on  its effects on animals. Some effects of plastics, especially that of macroplastics, are quite straightforward. These effects are easily observable with the naked eye. (1) Entanglement Macroplastics such as fishing gear, fishing nets, etc are often the cause of entanglements….

The first series of posts is about PLASTIC POLLUTION. Plastic pollution is not something new to us. In fact, it has become one of the most pressing issues that we face today. Let me start off by giving a brief overview about plastic pollution. Plastic can mainly be categorized into macroplastics and microplastics. As the names…