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SCIENCE IS SEEKING SOLUTIONS

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Besides conducting numerous studies that are arming global communitie­s with vital informatio­n on plastic pollution and its origins, the scientific and research community is also making groundbrea­king discoverie­s…

In China, scientists are working on producing plastics that will dissolve into non-toxic components in 10 days when exposed to seawater

Researcher­s from the University of Warwick in the UK have found a way to locate the missing 99% of plastic in the ocean by using fluorescen­t dyes that bind with plastic

Plastic-eating enzymes have been discovered, albeit accidental­ly, by researcher­s at the University of Portsmouth in the UK and the US Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory

 ??  ?? TOP: Scientific discoverie­s are one part of the solutionAB­OVE: Dyes that bind with plastics could help locate marine debris
TOP: Scientific discoverie­s are one part of the solutionAB­OVE: Dyes that bind with plastics could help locate marine debris
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