Plastic debris and what they accumulate. (IMAGE)

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Plastic debris and what they accumulate.

Caption

(a-c) and (k-m) show polystyrene foam particles collected from the environment and as manufactured, respectively, imaged at different magnifications using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). (d-e) and (n-o) show the composition of the same two types of particles, as found from energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy.

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Tokyo Metropolitan University

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