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    Rights: Maldeseine, CC BY-S.A 3.0 Published 30 August 2019 Size: 1.7 MB Referencing Hub media

    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

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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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