Marine debris. Pea_2077_24978_1.pdf. SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHY NEWS : : Scripps Study Finds Plastic in Nine Percent of 'Garbage Patch' Fishes. Science of The Total Environment : Experimental degradation of polymer shopping bags (standard and degradable plastic, and biodegradable) in the gastrointestinal fluids of sea turtles. Abstract The persistence of marine debris such as discarded polymer bags has become globally an increasing hazard to marine life.
To date, over 177 marine species have been recorded to ingest man-made polymers that cause life-threatening complications such as gut impaction and perforation. This study set out to test the decay characteristics of three common types of shopping bag polymers in sea turtle gastrointestinal fluids (GIF): standard and degradable plastic, and biodegradable. Fluids were obtained from the stomachs, small intestines and large intestines of a freshly dead Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) and a Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta).
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Asch Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0208, USA.
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