Plastic in the ocean. Photo: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Cesar Harada
The UN Environment programme estimates that eight million tonnes of plastic ends up in the world's oceans every year. University of Auckland sediment ecologist and eco-hydrologist Dr Julie Hope talks to Kathryn about the impact of ingesting tiny plastic particles on micro-organisms which she says are the foundation of our marine ecosystemDr Hope works in the seafloor ecology lab group at the Institute of Marine Science and has recently won a prestigious Royal Society New Zealand Marsden fast start grant. She'll give a talk about her research next Tuesday at the University of Auckland.
