BC birds eating plastic pollution – Canada

Posted on July 20, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic & Wildlife

BC birds eating plastic pollution | Solid Waste & Recycling Magazine.

The study, published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin, notes that 93 per cent of the birds studied had bellyfuls of plastic pollution from the Pacific Ocean – everything from twine to candy wrappers.

Of the 67 birds that were examined in necropsies, the stomachs contained an average of 36.8 pieces of plastic found per bird, according to researcher Stephanie Avery-Gomm