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According to foreign media New Atlas, although we know that a large amount of plastic waste is accumulating in the ocean, what we do not know is where it ends up, and what exactly this means for the marine ecosystem
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Scientists at Cardiff University have come up with a way to predict the size of the largest chunk of plastic that different organisms can consume, which could inform the risk that different types of waste pose to species globally
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While the effects of plastic waste on marine animals are unclear, scientists in the field are still discovering more details about why they are ingested and the risks they may pose
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The new study, by scientists at Cardiff University's Water Institute, fills in even more gaps
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This allowed them to discover the relationship between the size of the animals and the largest amount of plastic waste they could possibly consume, which they calculated to be about 20:1
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Project leader Professor Isabel Durance said: "We all see distressing and often heartbreaking images of animals affected by plastic, but never before have we seen more interactions between animals and plastic
"This study gives us a new way to visualize many, many unseen events
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The research was published in the journal Nature Communications
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