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This new kind of plastic is made to degrade in seawater

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Anthropocene

Publication Date
2020-03-26

At five sites in the world’s oceans, plastic waste accumulates in large swirling gyres, the largest of which is three times the size of France. Millions of tons of plastic enters the oceans every year, damaging marine ecosystems, harming ocean animals and entering the human food chain.

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https://anthropocenemagazine.org/2020/03/this-new-degradable-plastic-could-be-the-relief-our-oceans-need/