This morning this video popped up in my FB feed, posted by the Story of stuff project:
Yeah…pretty depressing.
On the other hand, can you imagine the microbes teeming on those piles of plastic? Or how the population in the water may be affected by the presence of plastic (probably full of organic material to boot).
However, another news that showed up in my feed was a friend’s posting about a possible plastic bag ban in San Diego. So there is still hope.
Good news: Our project was featured in microbe.net by Holly Ganz: see here. Holly works at the renowned microbiota expert Jonathan Eisen’s lab at UC Davis, and curates the blog dedicated to the microbiology of the built environment. Very cool!
As we speak, our latest sequencing data are being crunched in preparation for the ISME conference in August. Will keep you posted!
