August 19, 2020
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Not all the news about plastic in the ocean is what we expect. In fact it may be not quite as bad as initially thought. This comes as welcome information as we are celebrating National Science Week with an oceans theme. Recently research led by an ANSTO scientist has found that the structural degradation of plastic in the ocean facilitates its entry into the natural carbon cycle efficiently as carbon dioxide. The research was an investigation of the fragmentation of packaging into microplastics in the ocean.
