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EnvironmentNew Study: Some Plastics Degrade Much, Much Faster Than We Thought
A team of scientists in Massachusetts, USA studying plastics largely polluting our oceans have recently revealed an astonishing discovery: polystyrene, used to make many everyday single-use plastic items, can degrade a whole lot faster than the “thousands of years” previously believed.
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EnvironmentWe Can All Cut Down Microfibre Plastics with the Turn of a Knob on Our Washing Machines
Scientists have discovered that each time we opt for a standard cycle on our washing machines instead of a delicate wash, we stop 800,000 plastic microfibres from entering our oceans and being ingested by marine animals.
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EnvironmentCleanup System Seems to Work, Gets Plastic Out of Ocean
The Ocean Cleanup launched a 2,000-foot-long self-contained system last year, and the team behind it are now praising the system’s major success in picking up plastic, including microplastics as small as 1mm in diameter, in the world’s oceans’ largest plastic accumulation zone: the Great Pacific Garbage…
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