Earth s largest mammals are consuming microplastics at an alarming rate, with new research from Stanford University showing blue whales specifically consume up to 10 million pieces of plastic per day.
Earth s largest mammals are consuming microplastics at an alarming rate, with new research from Stanford University showing blue whales specifically consume up to 10 million pieces of plastic per day.
Researchers estimate that blue whales may each consume up to 10 million pieces of microplastic every day during their main feeding season as they chow down on plastic-filled prey.
Blue whales consume up to 10 million pieces of microplastic every day, a study estimates, suggesting that the omnipresent pollution poses a bigger danger to the world's largest animal than previously thought. The tiny fragments of plastic have been found everywhere from the deepest oceans to the highest mountains, and…