Microplastics found in a third of fish caught in the English Channel

Microplastics found in a third of fish caught in the English Channel. The next time you're enjoying a trip to the seaside, turn your mind away from the ice-cream vans and sand dunes for a moment and spend a few minutes looking beneath your feet.

If you're on a touristy beach such as Bournemouth, swept clean every morning by teams of litter pickers, you may have to look hard. But even on the tidiest beach, among the shells, seaweed and stones, you will inevitably find plastic.

Sometimes the plastic will be recognisable — perhaps a fragment of a crisp packet or bottle tops.

Often you will just find weird looking coloured blobs, tiny microbeads from cosmetics or blobs of 'microplastic'.

Every single beach and every stretch of coastline in the world, from Great Yarmouth to Hawaii, is now washed by a tide of this all pervasive, harmful plastic soup.

There are five trillion particles of plastic measuring less than 5mm floating around the seas — collectively weighing nearly 270,000 tonnes.

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Source: Mail Online