and the animals that eat them, depend on just how many larval fish make it, and in what condition. The blue glove hasn’t been in the water long enough to suffer the fate of most ocean plastic ...

eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine animal, researchers say: In one large population, 90 percent of the fledglings had already ingested some. A plastic shard ...

They can be eaten by animals and then ... seabirds have been eating nurdles. "More recently, a staggering 91 per cent of northern fulmars – a seabird of the open ocean – have been found to contain ...