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Plastics also release toxic chemicals into the environment and cause physical, chemical harm and biological damage to organisms. Ingestion of plastic does not only lead to death in animals through intestinal blockage but it can also travel up the food chain which affects humans. [101]
Over 700 marine species, including half of the world’s cetaceans (such as whales and dolphins), all of its sea turtles, and a third of its seabirds, are known to ingest plastic.
We’re all guilty of refilling our plastic water bottles—but the consequences can be seriously harmful to your health. This is why you should never refill your plastic water bottle Skip to main ...
Larger plastics (called "macroplastics") such as plastic shopping bags can clog the digestive tracts of larger animals when consumed by them [13] and can cause starvation through restricting the movement of food, or by filling the stomach and tricking the animal into thinking it is full. Microplastics on the other hand harm smaller marine life.
The poem appears to the reader like a piece of found poetry. [4] Metrically, the poem exhibits no regularity of stress or of syllable count. Except for lines two and five (each an iamb) and lines eight and nine (each an amphibrach), no two lines have the same metrical form. [4]
Plastic water bottles have been wreaking havoc on the environment for years, but now scientists are saying that you shouldn't use them at all if you don't want to wreak havoc on your own health ...
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
Microplastics are plastic fragments larger than 0.2 inches (5 millimeters), while nanoplastics are particles smaller than 0.00004 inches (1 nanometer). Researchers think plastic is accumulating ...