Future Health Dangers

Under the headline "Oceans drowning in a a sea of plastic" we learn the alarming truth about the dumping of plastic waste on the world's oceans. 'What is made up of 52 million pieces and weigh 250,000 tonnes? The answer is the mountain of plastic floating around the world's oceans. The first comprehensive study found that the Mediterranean had more plastic than anywhere else at 90,000 pieces per sq km. Most other  oceans had up to 100,000 pieces sq km.' (Times, 12 December) This dumping is going on at a time when there are growing fears about the capacity of fish and seabirds to absorb potentially harmful plastic compounds and to pass the effects RD