Even the tiniest plastics found in the sea with new technology
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 11:50
in Earth & Climate
Studies have estimated that each year between 4 and 12 million tonnes of plastics end up in the sea, and that the figure is expected to double over the next ten years. But we have only begun to learn what happens with the plastics afterwards. Two students have now developed a method that can measure the microplastics that other methods overlook.