Could a Seaweed-Eating Microbe Help Solve the Ocean Plastic Crisis?

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By Olivia RosaneDec 27, 2018, 6:59 am80 pts
The use of traditional plastics poses a major threat to the world's oceans: If current trends continue, plastics will outnumber fish by 2050. But the oceans might also contain the solution to this massive problem, researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have discovered. That solution comes in the form of a…

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