Not quite sure if it's today or if it was over the weekend, but World Ocean Day is here. One of the world's leading authorities on plastic pollutants in the ocean is in Hawaii for a series of events. He was on the news last night to highlight the issue of the tiny pieces of plastic that are threatening our ocean and food chain. It's not all the large, intact plastic bottles and bags that you see on the water's surface that's the problem (but it can't help, can it?). It's mainly when plastic breaks down into micron-sized particles as shown above. This is what the fish and other sea creatures are eating that causes the chemical concentrations now found in fish that worries scientists. Another sad, related note? Search teams scanning the ocean 700 miles off the coast of Brazil are finding mostly ocean garbage and not the wreckage for the downed Air France jet. I hope that the scientist is a believer that we can turn it around; otherwise this is just a very depressing foreshadowing of the future.
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