Baleen whales ingest up to 10 MILLION pieces of microplastic every day   Daily Mail Online
Channel: World News
Date: 01/11/2022

Whales - the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth - are ingesting microplastics on a colossal scale.

Researchers at Stanford University in California modelled how many pieces of plastic filter-feeding whales consume each day.

To do this, they combined measures of microplastic concentration in the North Pacific Ocean and logs of whale foraging locations.