Nearly Every Seabird on Earth Is Eating Plastic
Plastic trash is found in 90 percent of seabirds. The rate is growing steadily as global production of plastics increases.
So much plastic trash is flowing into the oceans that 90 percent of seabirds eat it now and virtually every one will be consuming it by 2050. That finding, revealed in a new study published this week, tracks for the first time how widespread plastics have become inside seabirds around the world.