A green group has found that 85 per cent of five types of wild mammal in Hong Kong had ingested microplastics in countryside areas, as it called on the government to step up waste reduction policies. Research teams from Hong Kong and Taipei universities, in collaboration with Greenpeace, found 2,503 pieces of microplastics in the faeces of buffalo, boar, cattle, macaques, and porcupines. “This latest study… identified debris of polypropylene (PP), predominately used in single-use plastic packaging and takeaway containers, in the faeces of mammals living in the countryside. This indicates that …
