Billions of pieces of plastic trash are sickening the world's coral reefs

As if coral reefs didn't have enough to contend with, a new study shows that 11 billion pieces of discarded plastic are spreading disease across the world's reefs. Plastic tumbling along the coral causes small cuts in the corals, which exposes them to diseases, increasing the likelihood that they will get sick from 4% to an astonishing 90%.

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/billions-of-pieces-of-plastic-trash-are-sickening-the-worlds-coral-reefs
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