Invasion of the biosphere by synthetic polymers: What our current knowledge may mean for our future
Author: Captain Charles J. Moore In 1974, a member of the Council of the British Plastics Federation and a fellow of the Plastics Institute, stated that “Plastics litter is a very small proportion of all litter and causes no harm to the environment except as an eyesore”(Derraik, 2002). It has taken less than fifty years…