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Chapter five of Garbology begins with Mary Crowley and her ship, the Kaisei. Using the Kaisei, Crowley and a couple of her friends developed a nonprofit research named Project Kaisei. Once all the big pieces of trash was cleaned out and the water looked ‘normal’ they discovered something very troublesome. The team scooped the water with a mesh net and brought up thousands of tiny pieces of plastic that had soaked up all the nasty dangerous chemicals that had been dumped into the water. These tiny particles are being eaten by small fish who are fairly close to the bottom of the food chain; once they eat these particles they’re passed down through the food chain. Crowley’s group isn’t the first to discover this or the most extraordinary; however,
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