Study: In the Sea, Not All Plastic Lasts Forever

This NY Times article discusses how some plastics break down quicker in the oceans. Polystyrene, a common ocean pollutant, decomposes in sunlight much faster than thought, a new study finds.

A major component of ocean pollution is less devastating and more manageable than usually portrayed, according to a scientific team at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, Mass., and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Comments are closed.