Decomposing bottle (IMAGE)

Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)

Decomposing bottle

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One of the ways microplastics gets into the environment is by degradation and abrasion of larger pieces of plastic.

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Bernd Nowack, Empa

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