Scientific evidences show that microbes that life in the floating mass of the plastic waste, have effect on the marine ecosystem, and they potentially damage humans and animals.
Last year, the researchers discovered the “plastisphera” , it means, that the microbe community that life in the plastic waste of our oceans. In that moment, they observe more than a thousand of different types of microbe that prosper in the plastic waste, and they suppose a risk for the rest of the animal chain.
Now, scientific rewarded advances in this area. They want to know the reason of their existence. Why do they life there, and how is it affecting to environment round.
They observed that there are some bacteria that are in groups in the plastic and appear so fast. Some plastics are more given with some kind of specific bacteria. Scientifics try to see if sea animals help to this pathogenic in the reproduction. Because when the fish eat the plastic with the bacteria, the bacteria is in contact the nutrients that are in the stomach and this process can explain the breeding.
This inform wants to understand how danger are the bacteria, and how plastisphera is modifying oceanic surroundings. It will help to reduce the impact of the plastic waste is producing in the marine ecosystem. Plastic manufacturer should produce in the future plastic products that can degrade in an optimal rhythm.
Source: ECOticias