There's So Much More Microplastic in the Ocean Than We Realized - Surely it’s got to be extremely dangerous for tiny animals at the bottom of the food chain to be eating microplastics, if it has a bad effect on these organisms then it directly affects every living organism above them, and the fact that it’s not possible to remove these particles via water treatment combined with the knowledge that we are producing more and more plastic must be cause for alarmearther.gizmodo.com #