Some researchers believe the Thames has the most microplastics of any river. BBC London's Environment Correspondent BBCTomEdwards discovered that scientists think these bits of plastic break down and enter the food chain. More here:
We are on the foreshore of the Thames at low tide in Fulham, right next to Fulham FC's home, Craven Cottage.There is plastic everywhere.
"We have been collecting samples at Sunbury-on-Thames, the freshwater side of the River Thames," Zara says. The next day, I go to Royal Holloway, University of London, in Egham. Prof Dave Morritt has been studying crabs from the Thames for 10 years. "You can clean up the bigger stuff, but with microplastics it's virtually impossible to get them out once they're there.Prof Dave Morritt has been studying Thames crabs - and their innards - for a decade
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