China Wholesale gutter guards young fish
2 percent of the ocean floor -- but provide crucial habitat for nearly a million species of China Wholesale gutter guards young fish.Lamb said scientists are still trying to figure out why plastics are so dangerous for coral, which are living organisms that cover about 0."We found that the chance of disease increased from four percent to 89 percent when corals are in contact with plastic," said lead author Joleah Lamb, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Australia. "For example, plastic items such as those commonly made of polypropylene, like bottle caps and toothbrushes, have been shown to become heavily inhabited by bacteria that are associated with a globally devastating group of coral diseases known as white syndromes.
1 billion plastic items on coral reefs across the Asia-Pacific and forecast this to increase by 40 percent within seven years," Lamb said."This breakthrough will be of interest to water companies worldwide and the next stage will be to see how it might clean-up other pollutants," he added.In the study waste plastic is re-used to form a porous solid, by freezing it in a solution with cyclohexane as solvent.Recent studies have demonstrated that these pollutant dyes are responsible for serious damage to aquatic ecological systems.In a solid state it can then be used to remove harmful synthetic dyes, used in the clothing industry world-wide, which are known to be carcinogenic and act as chronic reproductive toxins to humans and animals.
"The development of methods of removing these compounds from industrial effluents is becoming increasingly important," Eastoe said.Once the solvent is removed, an expanded solid plastic poly(styrene) foam is left behind."There is a wide range of toxic and hazardous substances, including synthetic dyes, which are continuously being released into industrial wastewaters, mostly due to lack of effective treatment methods," he said."This research suggests a promising approach to turn some of the vast amounts of plastic white pollution into a resource for tackling environmental damage elsewhere in the form of water materials for treatment, said Eastoe.
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