I found your article interesting, especially about the different ways in which humans have messed themselves up in the past by using products they didn't understand the long term risks off. Maybe it will turn out to be the same with plastics! There is too much plastic products in the world for sure @irastra. I can't remember the last time I didn't return from a dive without my BCD jackets full of plastic bits and bobs. It's really disheartening when your drifting peacefully with the current and see a beautiful green turtle eating what you think is a jelly fish, only to discover as you get closer that it's a plastic bag! It's enough to make me cry sometimes. I've literally helped pull a plastic bag out of a turtles throat when in Mexico helping out with the breeding conservation groups. Poor thing was retching away for hours :(
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Thanks for your answer. It seems that we, humans, have a similar problem, as there are tiny pieces of plastic in the drinking water, and in animals that live in the seas and oceans, so if we eat them then we eat the degraded plastic that is in them. Only they are too small for us to see.