Three sugar cubes worth of plastic enough to kill a puffin, study finds
by Helena Horton Environment reporter from Environment | The Guardian on (#71HJ6)
Scientists find tiny amounts can be a fatal dose' for marine life in the most comprehensive study of its kind
Ingesting less than three sugar cubes worth of plastic is enough to kill a puffin, a new study has found.
Scientists measured how much different kinds of plastic seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals have to ingest to have a 90% risk of it killing them, in the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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