Voyage Of Plastic

http://www.eurekalert.org/features/kids/2010-08/aaft-tlv081310.php

This article talks about what plastic is and what its affects. In this article they say that  many people are throwing plastic which causes many problems such as fish eating it and dying fish getting tangled in big plastic bags. Over the past 22 years ships have towed nets through the atlantic. These nets catch du-brie at the water surface. Researchers would go through the de-brie, and find plastic particles. One of the many researches are called Kara Lavender Law of the Sea Education Association and her colleagues have now analyzed those 22 years of research, they found that the amount of plastic being taken is staying stable. They found it very unusual because people have been creating than throwing away in even larger amounts for the last to decades .


 Dr. Law and her colleagues have good research that may explain why plastic isn't at the surface of the Atlantic ocean. Their research have showed that the plastic breaks into small pieces that the nets cant catch. It might sink of being eaten by fish and other marine animals.