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Plastic food chain threatening the oceans'

1 October 2015 Last updated at 20:11 BST clock

As Britain prepares to introduce a load of plastic bags, reported science editor David Shukman about the possible threat to the food chain of plastic into small fragments divided into our oceans.

Tests that. From the Plymouth Marine Laboratory has shown that when the tiny plastic particles in water, the creatures are taken up at the bottom of the food chain

An estimated eight million tons of plastic waste is added in the oceans every year.

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