Trash. Part 3

oh rachel women inmates wrap have a channel the closing new york a glorious hours avoid any public works overseas and all of the all of the rats and debrief the fire across from a plastic bag the traffic cop behind him at public works has installed to trying to keep it from flowing into that they felt after the oath and in about an hour the the water bottles broken furniture and other and candy is still trying to get a handle on the total amount of trash blowing or washing into waterways and where exactly it's all coming from these jammers with the oc watershed division they could be attached to the outcome that they make it with a question then sometimes it's unfortunate that some of our history despite the local efforts to capture trash some of it ends up in the ocean of most concern is the plastic because it's so durable in a lab in redondo beach towels more with the alba leader marine

research foundation is examining what's been in the stomach of an albatross from the hawaiian islands here we are live to some kind of a screw top of some sort of all over parts of capture all of this before there is an entire little miniature plastic bait moore says the birds didn't evolve with plastic so they have no way to distinguish it from food they're filling up on maybe you know a large percentage of non digestible monitored of plastic then bring it back and feeding it to their checks so that the checks then i was fall they say she asian reflex so it's getting foreign foreign finally stopped demanding food from the parents moore says about seventy species of seabirds have been found to eat plastic researchers have also documented sea turtles and whales killed or injured by ingesting plastic bags in mylar balloons that scientists don't know how widespread the plastic problem is because they've

only stated a few hotspots like ocean waters at the males of the la and san gabriel river is the elderly to foundation found two and a half grams of plastic for every gram of plankton at the surface much of it very small pieces and they will be far more damaging politically dr anthony and draw it is a polymer scientist with the research company rti international he says uv light gradually breaks plastic into smaller and smaller pieces his researchers found the krill and other zooplankton will eat significant amounts of microscopic plastic that is politically disconcerting because the ford believed on the floor but within that path in effect on the day the leading the no researchers in japan have found the pieces of plastic placed in sea water will absorb pc bees and other toxins that scientists don't know of marine life that eats plastic would absorb any of the pollution and then you have the question of

identity plastic doesn't just break down in the ocean it fragments on land and in reverse the elderly the foundation points out that the net public works department used to capture trash film festivals this chance for that in africa for a generator systems isn't a battle we have to work on prevention is absolutely safe then you repeat this is that still at nine point three