Marine pollution is not a national pollution, but a global pollution.
According to a Reuters report on December 20, a study released this month by the Norwegian Water Institute said that from northern Europe to China, marine life of mussels, such as mussels, has been polluted by plastic particles, including in the Arctic waters off the Norwegian coast In China, mussels in Chile, Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium and other countries contain plastic particles, averaging 1.8 fragments each, less than 5 millimeters in length, compared to 4.3 for each in the Arctic. It is a sign of the global spread of marine pollution that we can experience directly from the table.
In 2016, researchers in China suggested that mussels could be the 'biological indicator' of global plastic particulate contamination because these mollusks live on the seabed and will have many plastic products that deposit and that unlike live fish, they live in a single location Will move.
Amy Lusher, a researcher at the Norwegian Water Institute, believes that ocean currents and sea breezes from Europe and the United States bring particles north and spin them around the Arctic Ocean, so the scientists found micro-plastic in all the mussels found in the area.
At present, the impact of plastic particulates on marine life and human consumption is unknown, and it may be damaging to eat large quantities of shellfish, knowing that this is likely to have a huge impact on the Belgian diet as it is most affected The food they welcome is French fries and mussels, and of course some of the mussel-producing countries will have a negative impact, such as China, the European Union and other countries, the commercial value of more than 3 billion US dollars.
Nearly 200 countries signed a UN resolution this month to reduce the use of plastics from bottles to pockets in supermarkets and food packaging, and to eliminate plastic pollution in the oceans, with a planned annual reduction of 8 million tons.
Professor Richard Thompson of Plymouth University, an expert on plastic particles, pointed out that this is indeed a warning sign, not a simple story, and that we need to take steps to reduce the plastic output to the oceans. The presence of plastic particles in the sea floor is so high that it hurts like However, for humans, most of the plastic debris can only enter the human body through the internal organs of marine organisms such as shellfish, and the average inhaled volume is likely to be lower than that of toys, Wool jacket and other daily plastic products.
For now, the plastic particles are difficult to be digested by fish and human beings, so their own body poisoning effect is not large, the harm may be due to its attachment of marine organic pollutants and heavy metals caused.
The researchers speculated that the plastic particles could also make pearl mussels or oysters, pearl self-protection when they are natural stimuli such as sand, may increase the value of shellfish, may also allow diners to collapse their teeth.