Sea animals could be chewing on ocean plastic waste and creating microplastics at a faster rate than previously thought, a Hong Kong researcher has found.Dr Cheung Siu-gin, an associate professor at City University, made the discovery as he was collecting the tiny plastic fragments for other research, and noticed about 10 per cent of the microplastic gathered from Hong Kong’s mudflats and beaches were neat triangles.“Some were shaped like sandwiches. I didn’t think it was possible they could…
from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3096646/hong-kong-study-finds-hungry-fish-creating
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