For Immediate Release:

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

High levels of man-made persistent organic pollutants have been found in tiny creatures collected in the world’s deepest ocean trenches. Shrimplike crustaceans, called amphipods, captured in the Marianas Trench and the Kermadec Trench were found contaminated with PCBs, once used in plastics manufacturing, and PBDEs, which are the main ingredients in flame retardants. The levels of PCBs in the Marianas Trench amphipods were higher than in the estuaries of China’s most polluted rivers, researcher Alan Jamieson told Nature.
This just goes to prove that man made toxic’s are ending up in places no humans have ever been to. Pollution has no boundaries and will travel through out the earth many ways crossing many environment boundaries like earth , air, water, food. The “persistent organic pollutants” are many and growing every year. Some of the most famous are DDT, PCB, Dioxin to name a few. Biomagnification is a process where living organisms, concentrate these toxins thru the food chain.
It is never too late to clean up our act, it is never too late to clean up the earth. We must start now in how we live and how we affect out environment.
andy Lopez
Invisible Gardener
for more reading please go to www.earthweek.com
also please read Persistent Organic Pollutants: A Global Issue, A Global Response