Fish eat plastic like teens eat fast food, researchers say
Young fish become hooked on eating plastic in the seas in the same way that teenagers prefer unhealthy fast food, Swedish researchers have said.
Their study, reported in Science, found exposure to high concentrations of polystyrene makes perch larvae favour the particles over more natural foods.
As a result of exposure to plastic, the young perch are smaller, slower and more susceptible to predators.
The researchers called for plastic micro-beads to be banned in cosmetics.
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Scientists say fish may be eating ocean plastic waste
Scientists are concerned that hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic waste floating in the ocean is being eaten by fish.
An international team of experts has found evidence there is 100 times less plastic on ocean surfaces than expected.
Professor Carlos Duarte, an oceanographer from the University of Western Australia, was part of the study that towed a mesh net through the world's oceans.
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