Plastic for Dinner: A Quarter of Fish Sold at Markets Contain Human-Made Debris

IET WebDev — September 24, 2015 - 9:05am

Roughly a quarter of the fish sampled from fish markets in California and Indonesia contained human-made debris — plastic or fibrous material — in their guts, according to a study from the ��С��, Davis, and Hasanuddin University in Indonesia.

The study, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, is one of the first to directly link plastic and human-made debris to the fish on consumers’ dinner plates.

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Plastic for Dinner: A Quarter of Fish Sold at Markets Contain Human-Made Debris