The plastic waste has reached the creatures living in the deepest areas of the Pacific ocean: British researchers have succeeded in micro-plastic in the smallest crabs to prove that life in some eleven kilometers deep. So far, the plastic particles were detected only in the Sediment.
In 72 percent of the studied cancers, the researchers found that the smallest plastic particles. The animals lived in six of the deepest areas of the Pacific, including the Mariana, the Philippines trench to the East.
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of the result Of their study, the researchers were surprised: “A part of me had expected that we would find something – but that the creatures dig in the Marian and in the deepest deep sea trench, are contaminated to a hundred percent, I had not expected. This is huge,” said marine biologist Alan Jamieson of the University of Newcastle to the AFP news Agency.
Up to 11’000 meters depth
The deep sea was long regarded as the last untouched Region. Microplastics has been demonstrated in organisms in 2200 meters depth in the North Atlantic ocean or in the sediments of the Kuril trench in around 7000 meters depth. In Marian in 11’000 meters of depth, a Chinese team of researchers of micro-plastic was digging recently in Sediment and water samples.
The British researchers showed that the deep-sea creatures ingest the plastic garbage, as you report in your on Wednesday in the scientific journal “Royal Society Open Science” published study.
Jamieson and his colleagues are concerned not usually with plastic waste, but with the exploration of the deep sea – to them the discovery of a series of deep-sea organisms is due to. In the meantime, you have a whole collection of crustaceans such as amphipods – from the years 2008 to 2017. They came up with the idea to use this collection to be one of the most pressing issues of our time.
micro-plastic in all animals
The result of their investigation was, “to find micro plastic in all animals throughout the Pacific and in extraordinary depth. It is everywhere,” said Jamieson. The surveyed ditches were partially thousands of miles away from each other, he added.
What is the impact of these micro-particles have on the deep-sea crabs, are not able to say the researchers. Jamieson assumed that, apart from the risk of contamination with chemical pollutants, there is certainly the danger exists that the digestive tract of the animals is blocked: “That would be, as you would swallow a two-metre-long rope made of polypropylene, and hope that this is detrimental to your health”.
even now, there is little hope that the all the plastic waste from the oceans. Hopeless but the perspective for the deepest areas of the oceans seems to be: “We pile our garbage in a place we know the least,” warns the British researchers. (fal/afp/sda)
Created: 27.02.2019, 16:34 PM
