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Plastic Breaks Down in the Ocean, After All-- and Fast	This article is about the newly discovered dangers of plastic degrading and releasing chemicals into the ocean. Scientists didn’t know that plastic is dissolving so fast and at such low temperatures, which although is less of a threat for chocking and strangling, the chemical toxins released into the waters is just as harmful to marine animals as the solid form of plastic. Marine animals are faced with another problem with plastic because of how sometimes it will sink to the bottom of the ocean if it’s heavier then the water, making the areas of dangerous plastic to be much greater then it would be if it was just on the surface, or if it all sunk.
Carolyn Barry
August 20, 2009
National Geographic Magazine
http://news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2009/08/090820-plastic-decomposes-oceans-seas.html