Plastic in 99 percent of seabirds by 2050 – Australia

Plastic in 99 percent of seabirds by 2050 – Australia

Posted on October 1, 2015 by DrRossH in Plastic & Wildlife

Aust BirdPlastic in 99 percent of seabirds by 2050 — ScienceDaily.

The study, led by Dr Chris Wilcox with co-authors Dr Denise Hardesty and Dr Erik van Sebille and published today in the journal PNAS, found that nearly 60 per cent of all seabird species have plastic in their gut.

Based on analysis of published studies since the early 1960s, the researchers found that plastic is increasingly common in seabird’s stomachs.

In 1960, plastic was found in the stomach of less than 5 per cent of individual seabirds, rising to 80 per cent by 2010.

The researchers predict that plastic ingestion will affect 99 per cent of the world’s seabird species by 2050, based on current trends.

The scientists estimate that 90 per cent of all seabirds alive today have eaten plastic of some kind.

Our poor behaviour with plastic waste has to change as this is going in a very disastrous direction