This year I had the chance to visit Portugal, representing Plastic Oceans International as part of the launch of the Portuguese Plastics Pact. Apart from this important event, I wanted know more about other initiatives and solutions to reduce plastic contamination in Portugal.
This paper represents a collaborative research project between the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and Arizona State University (ASU).
We have been rightly focused on the risks to water from plastics and microplastics, especially rivers, costs and open seas. The fragments seen so vividly in the stomachs of seabirds and fish in A Plastic Ocean show that they present a real hazard to biodiversity, and the food chain, ultimately leading to us!