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Lush meadows of underwater seagrass are removing plastic from the sea
A seagrass that forms lush underwater meadows can naturally trap plastic items in ball-shaped tangles and remove them from the seawater
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Microplastics left in water are more easily absorbed by mouse cells
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Most whales and sea turtles seem to have plastic in their bodies
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Plastic baby bottles shed millions of microplastics when shaken
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Microwaving plastic waste can generate clean hydrogen
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Washing our clothes has created 5.6 million tonnes of microfibre waste
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A new type of plastic may be the first that is infinitely recyclable
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Simple technique could help find microplastics inside the human body
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How covid-19 spawned a plastic pandemic 鈥� and what we can do about it
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Earth faces plastic pollution disaster unless we take drastic action
Even if we took every feasible action to reduce plastic pollution, we would only cut it by 78 per cent by 2040, a study has found. That doesn't mean we should stop trying
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Beetle larvae that eat polystyrene may help solve plastic waste crisis
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There might not be as many microplastic fibres in oceans as we feared
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Ocean currents are sweeping microplastics into the deep sea
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AI can search satellite data to find plastic floating in the sea
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