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John Meeker

John Meeker

Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan

A black footed albatross chick with plastics in its stomach lies dead on Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Midway sits amid a collection of man-made debris called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Along the paths of Midway, there are piles of feathers with rings of plastic in the middle - remnants of birds that died with the plastic in their guts. Dan Clark/USFWS via AP

We are Guinea Pigs in a Worldwide Experiment on Microplastics

8 min read Aug 17, 2018

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