{"id":20677,"date":"2023-05-11T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serveiseducatius.xtec.cat\/altemporda\/?p=20677"},"modified":"2023-05-11T13:19:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T11:19:02","slug":"babylegs-un-recollidor-de-microplastics-cassola-per-lescola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serveiseducatius.xtec.cat\/altemporda\/general\/babylegs-un-recollidor-de-microplastics-cassola-per-lescola\/","title":{"rendered":"BabyLegs. Un recollidor de micropl\u00e0stics casol\u00e0 per l’escola"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Despr\u00e9s de l’exitosa confer\u00e8ncia de l’Anna S\u00e1nchez adre\u00e7ada a l’alumnat de batxillerat dels centres de la Xarxa d’escoles del parc natural de Cap de Creus<\/strong> sobre els micropl\u00e0stics. <\/em>Publiquem, la primera refer\u00e8ncia apareguda l’any 2015<\/span> <\/strong><\/span>al Canada sobre els BabyLegs. <\/em>Un utensili casol\u00e0 per recollir pl\u00e0stics, de manera molt senzilla, que pot esdevenir un fant\u00e0stic recurs per treballar i conscienciar a l’alumnat de la import\u00e0ncia de mantenir els oceans nets.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Of the 5.25 trillion pieces of\u00a0marine plastics in the world\u2019s oceans, 92% are microplastics less that 5mm in size (Eirksen et al 2014),\u00a0<\/span>allowing them to be\u00a0easily ingested by marine life as small as plankton (Cole et al 2013).\u00a0<\/span>Scientists are concerned that because plastics absorb\u00a0up to a million times more chemicals than surrounding waters (Mato et al 2001),\u00a0<\/span>widespread ingestion means that\u00a0toxicants that accumulate in animals can magnify up food webs, causing a potential threat to human\u00a0health (Rochman et al 2013, Teuten et al 2009).\u00a0This makes microplastics an environmental justice issue as people who eat marine mammals or who depend upon fish for sustenance are more likely to carry high\u00a0toxic burdens.<\/p>\n

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Created with baby\u2019s tights, soda pop bottles, and other inexpensive and easy to find materials, Babylegs can be used to trawl for floating marine microplastics from a boat (motorized or hand-propelled). It is designed to mimic the type of samples collected by the more expensive\u00a0Manta Trawl<\/a>: floating microplastics less than 5mm in size. BabyLegs usually requires trawl times of 20 minutes to an hour, so is not appropriate for use by hand. If you do not have a boat and would like to check local waters for plastics, we recommend the\u00a0Ice Cream Scoop<\/a>, or a\u00a0shoreline study<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BabyLegs is the most charismatic of our\u00a0marine plastics monitoring technologies.<\/a>\u00a0The technology looks like a little person or jelly fish, and during presentations and field research, we treat the technology like a doll because it encourages people to approach us, talk to us, and share images of the technology. The goal of this technology is to make it as accessible as possible so people in remote northern communities can monitor plastics in their fishing and hunting areas.<\/p>\n

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