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
Kaje26 t1_j6e3dpm wrote on January 29, 2023 at 6:25 PM So it will be 50 years before the current level of plastic now is gone and by that time it will be more than replaced by more plastic. Permalink 1
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