Just Have a Think | Our oceans have learnt how to EAT PLASTIC! @JustHaveaThink | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Plastic pollution is a huge problem on every continent, and increasingly in our oceans. Land based microbes have been discovered that have learnt how to digest certain plastics, but new research has now discovered that nature is at it in our oceans as well! So has evolution gifted us a solution to the Great Pacific Garbage patch?

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