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In 1960, plastic was found in the stomachs of less than five percent of seabirds; by 2010 that figure had risen to 80 percent.
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About 90 percent of the world's seabirds today have consumed some form of plastic, a study estimated Monday.
The study, published in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is important in revealing the pervasive impact of plastic on seabirds.
"This is a huge amount and really points to the ubiquity of plastic pollution," lead author Chris Wilcox, a senior research scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Oceans and Atmosphere Business Unit, said in a statement.
The investigators' analysis of studies published since the early 1960s showed that plastic is increasingly common in seabirds' stomachs
source:famagusta gazette
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