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Researchers from the hydrology institute suspect. according to one study the rhine contains more micro plastics than any other river in the world. unfortunately in this instance the research is weren't able to put it days on the sediment they collected. but finding plastics in their core samples is still. important discovery not a very surprising one says biologist georg reifferscheid. we're finding plastic particles in every section of waterway in the country particularly in the sediments these particles sink into. and organisms live in the sediment so they consume these particles. more resea...

A different organisms consume micro plastics obviously anything that sharp can damage the digestive tract but we also hypothesize that certain additives that plastics contain can be absorbed from the digestive tract into the body with negative consequences and. that means the toxins contained in plastic could make their way into fish so they into the food chain that ends on our plates. this is what we know is that in every area of the environment we've looked at so far we found micro plastics but we don't yet know to what extent they're broken down or how they decompose in the environment. by ...

A treatment plant is of little use them again a lot of treatment plant like this is not designed to filter out micro plastics it only removes organic materials and detergents from sewage. into larger. water fleas are an important source of food for fish the tiny christians normally eat healthy animal ecologist christian laforce is seeing what happens when he feeds them plastic particles as well. he discovers the water fleas can't tell the difference between the two and will ingest both the forces also discovered micro plastics and worms snails and muscles. the researcher uses u.v. light to ill...

Uncharted territory. the water flows slowly at the northern edge of an island in the river it's an ideal spot for deposits of fine grained sentiment to form. the researches are in luck. down into the riverbed. they then extract the core sample the sediment is almost all sand it's still too early to tell if it contains micro plastics. that's a common i think it's almost certain that will find plastic in the top layers at least a few plastic particles that. the team also hopes to determine the age of the sediment and of any. but that will take

The size glass that is most common is between 1 and 3 millimeters in diameter but we will find interesting objects. a lot of tubs that are used in sorting fish in the fisheries that are manufactured in new zealand. we found a lot of fishing buoys and the most common things we find out there are the floating bottles and the bottle caps. >> reporter: the plastic poses a major threat to marine life. small fish come to the surface at night to feed and many eat small micro plastics instead and are then unable to swim back to the bottom. the plastic acting like a buoy. not only do these fish ingest ...