UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces: researchers calculate that about two percent of visibly floating plastic may disappear from the ocean surface in this way each year nioz.nl Submitted by giuliomagnifico t3_10nlduu on January 28, 2023 at 6:08 PM in science 133 comments 977
IceFire2050 t1_j6des9v wrote on January 29, 2023 at 3:44 PM hooray. the big visible plastics break down in to small microplastics and a soup of toxic chemicals instead. That's much better for the ocean. Permalink 1
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