Pandemic of plastic pollution

Polystyrene foam beads on a beach.

-- Photo by G.Mannaerts

Adapted from Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com

Plastic pollution very seriously threatens our ecosystems.

Thus it was good to learn that the University of Rhode Island has won a $1 million contract to research the effects of this growing  and still inadequately understood pollution in the water and on land that kills wild animals and harms human health. To get some sense of how serious this problem has become, just walk on a beach.

The reputation of URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography is the major reason the university won this contract.

Hit this link for an article about international plastic pollution of the ocean.