Study of bird stomach contents: The amount of plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean has reached alarming levels

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Rising plastic menace choking sealife

Stuart Gary
ABC
Litter on the beach

The amount of plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean has reached alarming levels, drastically impacting seabird populations, according to a new study.

Scientists at the University of British Columbia looked at populations of Northern Fulmars, a bird species distributed widely in the north Atlantic and north Pacific.

They found that more than 92 per cent of dead birds on beaches in British Columbia, Canada, and the US states of Washington and Oregon, had ingested significant quantities of plastic refuse....