00:04this is rio de janeiro in brazil and while this is what some of their beaches look like this is
00:09what it's like on other parts of their coastline a veritable garbage dump of plastic as plastic is
00:14deposited into the oceans it never fully breaks down but it is broken up into small bits called
00:19microplastics these little bits can then be ingested by wildlife wreaking havoc on the
00:24animals and during a recent evaluation of areas around brazil researchers say they are absolutely
00:29shocked at how much of this stuff is in their waters this is marine biologist raquel neves
00:34her and her team have been diving and collecting sea creatures for autopsies and inside they have
00:39found some startling discoveries here's what she had to say about the situation i was frightened i
00:44knew i would find some microplastics but i never thought it would be this much that sample i showed
00:48you from the sea urchin is from a reference area that we thought to be clean that is our cleanest
00:53spot despite calls for the contrary single-use plastic consumption continues to increase expected to
00:59triple by 2040.
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