Sunlight pulps the plastic soup

Sunlight pulps the plastic soup

Terra Daily

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Texel, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 12, 2023

UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean's surfaces. Floating microplastic is broken down into ever smaller, invisible nanoplastic particles that spread across the entire water column, but also to compounds that can then be completely broken down by bacteria. This is shown by experiments in the laboratory of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, NIOZ, on Texel.

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