– Microplastics are mistaken with zooplankton and absorbed by ocean life, goes all through the food chain up to humans, potentially causing diseases such as degenerative neurological disorder

– Macroplastics, injected by mammals, birds, reptiles (turtles), can cause death and leads to a the loss of biodiversity

– Microplastics in water, under solar radiation, emit Green House Gases (GHG): methane and ethylene, increasing     climate change

– plastics in the water absorb floating chemicals, many of them know as persistent pollutants: PCBs, insecticides, pecticides, fungicides, lubricants, solvents, coolants