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Jeremy Irons:
So when a fish eats plastic, what, what does it ingest? I mean, if we were to eat that fish, would it be - would we just cut out the plastic from its stomach? Charles Moore:
Well, uh, we've all grown up with this idea, since it's part of our food delivery system, that plastic is inert. We think of plastic as not transferring anything to the food because we get our milk in plastic, we get our yogurt in plastic, we get our meat in plastic, and we really wouldn't like it if we had some concept that plastic was bioactively transferring chemicals to the food that were a problem for our body. Turns out that's actually what's occurring. And in the ocean, it's not only the compounds that have been mixed into the plastic at the time of manufacture, but it's the compounds that have been absorbed by the plastic as they float in the ocean
So when a fish eats plastic, what, what does it ingest? I mean, if we were to eat that fish, would it be - would we just cut out the plastic from its stomach? Charles Moore:
Well, uh, we've all grown up with this idea, since it's part of our food delivery system, that plastic is inert. We think of plastic as not transferring anything to the food because we get our milk in plastic, we get our yogurt in plastic, we get our meat in plastic, and we really wouldn't like it if we had some concept that plastic was bioactively transferring chemicals to the food that were a problem for our body. Turns out that's actually what's occurring. And in the ocean, it's not only the compounds that have been mixed into the plastic at the time of manufacture, but it's the compounds that have been absorbed by the plastic as they float in the ocean
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So when a fish eats plastic
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What does it ingest
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If we were to eat that fish would we just
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Cut out the plastics from its stomach
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Well we've all grown up with this idea
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Since it's part of our food delivery system
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That plastic is inert
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We think of plastic as not transferring anything
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To the food because we get our milk in plastic
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We get our yogurt in plastic we get our meat
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In plastic and we really wouldn't like it
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If we had some concept that plastic was
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Bioactively transferring chemicals to the food
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That were a problem for our bodies
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Turns out that's actually what's occurring
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And in the ocean it's not only the compounds
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That have been mixed into the plastic
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At the time of manufacture
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But it's the compounds that have been absorbed
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By the plastic as they float in the ocean
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Jeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Iron...
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