Polypropylene pellets do not have acute toxicity. The polymer, polypropylene, will not leave in the bodies when human beings and fish take plastic pellets. In addition, it is not rare to see plastic rubbish floating on Hong Kong waters and different kinds of plastic pellets are often eaten by fish. The citizens, however, may hardly hear of such things, which accounts for the strong repercussions upon the plastic disaster. After the exposure, distributors once worried that fish eating plastic pellets might have been poisoned and stopped buying local fish. Hong Kong citizens also lost confidence in local fish, which led to a dramatic drop in local fish sales. The fishermen, consequently, suffered a loss.
