New Species of Darkling Beetle Larvae Degrades Plastic

Monday, July 20, 2020 - 09:30 in Earth & Climate

There floats an enormous plastic garbage island in the North Pacific that is seven times the size of the Korean Peninsula. The island, called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is the result of 13 million tons of plastic that flow into the ocean annually from the 20,000 units of plastic consumed per second around the […]

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