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- The Perpetually Curious! › Archives › Environment & SustainabilityArticle
From Rainforest Floor to Landfill Core: How Nature's Decomposers Are Learning to Eat Our Plastic Problem 🍄
In 2011, undergraduate students trudging through Ecuador's rainforest made an accidental discovery that would reshape our approach to plastic waste. Their equipment bag, supposedly sealed against moisture, had become lunch for an unexpected guest.
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🌊 Microplastics in the Ocean: How Tiny Fragments Travel
Once plastic reaches rivers, beaches, storm drains, or coastal waters, sunlight, abrasion, waves, and time can break larger items into particles smaller than about 5 millimeters.
