range of different microplastics washed up on a beach
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A range of different microplastics that have been washed up on a beach. What types of microplastics can you spot here?

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    Microplastics

    Microplastics are very small plastic particles generally less than 5 mm in size. Some people also distinguish microplastics from even smaller plastics, termed nanoplastics, that are less than ...

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    Plastic pollution and marine microbes

    Plastic and microplastic pollution of oceans is a wicked problem. Using bioinformatics and statistical analysis, scientist Victor Gambarini looked to correlate marine microbes that could degrade ...

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