The Skimmer on Marine Ecosystems and Management

A Parable about Plastics

By Tundi Agardy, Contributing Editor, MEAM. Email: tundiagardy@earthlink.net What we are beginning to understand about the impact that plastics have on marine life (and, by extension, all life) is a parable for how humans impact the oceans in other ways. Recent research that looks beyond the accumulation of debris and…