How nanoplastics negatively affect aquatic animals
Plastic accounts for nearly eighty per cent of all waste found in our oceans, gradually breaking down into smaller and smaller particles. New research from Lund University in Sweden investigates how nanosized plastic particles affect aquatic animals in different parts of the food chain. The team found that fish that ate the zooplankton Daphnia containing nanoplastics experienced a change in their predatory behaviour and poor appetite.“Not very many studies have been done on this topic before. Plastic particles of such a small size are difficult to study”, says Karin Mattsson.
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