SciShow: 3 Unexpected Effects of Plastic Pollution

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Content of the Lesson: You probably already knew that plastic can be bad, but scientists have taken a closer look, and found out it can be bad in surprising ways. Happy Earth Day! After watching this video, check out our Earth Day play list, which features episodes about our world, and how we're handling some of our biggest problems. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X19308586 https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/plastic-pollution-may-be-spreading-antibiotic-resistance/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-10813-0 https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Plastic-and-Climate-FINAL-2019.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44117-2 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200309130103.htm https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30115-9 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768?ijkey=BXtBaPzbQgagE&keytype=ref&siteid=sci https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/patch.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X11003055 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200574 https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2015/em/c5em00207a https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/microplastics-pollution-falls-from-air-even-mountains/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/12/microplastic-pollution-is-found-in-deep-sea/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0437-7 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b07527 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2019.00080/full https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/07/plastic-produced-recycling-waste-ocean-trash-debris-environment/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6321434/


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