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Hard To Degrade! Chinese Scientists Have Discovered Microplastics In Antarctic Waters For The First Time

May 05, 2025

In the Antarctic Marine research mission of the Chinese scientists have a new found that belongs to the first, don't make people happy through the layers of filtering and observations, the researchers confirmed that the Antarctic region of the surface waters are not visible to the naked eye plastic particles (micro plastic refers to the diameter of less than 5 microns), the content is even higher than the average level of the earth's oceans.

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This is the human at the South Pole for the first time found that the existence of plastic particles in the academic circle, plastic particles known as PM2.5 ocean since the plastic was invented in the early 20th century, it has already got into every corner of our lives I thought someone less activity of the Antarctic region would be the last piece of pure land, didn't know whether or not we found that the plastic has long captured there, too sad to think of it, the result is not surprising plastic is difficult to degrade, the decomposition of plastic bags in the supermarket may be over 1000 yearsThey break down over a long lifetime, becoming smaller and smaller particles, burrowing into crevices in the soil and underground water, and circulating through nature
In the past few years, the plastic particles can always hit the headlines around the scientists had found in honey beer salt content is low plastic particles, according to the university of Minnesota school of public health report with plastic particles in 72% of the water pipe in European countries, even the President of the United States often trump to patronize his restaurant are not immune is the only comforting, experts told me that there is no evidence to prove that these particles are not harmful to human body we don't try since June 1, 2008, China has banned the productionOf less than 0.025 mm thickness of sale and use of plastic bags supermarkets farmers market only provide paid plastic shopping bags plastic limit for 10 years, some question its utility, plastic pollution due to the rapid changes of society also has a new form, no matter at home or at school work, trash can always soon by Courier and plastic boxes filled, according to a recent authoritative 2017 China express industry only up to 14.7 billion plastic bags, according to China environmental news every day in our country about 350 tons of waste generated takeout, 59 can fill a football field, it is only one over one thousand of China's total produce plastic, widely used in agricultural production of plastic film, fisheries aquaculture pollution caused by use of plastic products, than the take-away serious these plastic boxes finally into fish and seabirds in the stomach, they constantly eating, but slowly starved to death in it has been found in a stranded whale stomach 30 plastic bags and a mass of more than 30 square meters of plastic on the New York timesPlastic is responsible for the deaths of at least one billion Marine animals every year

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