NUS Marine Scientists Find Toxic Bacteria on Microplastics Retrieved from Tropical Waters

ENN
Feb 11, 2019, 11:37 am46 pts
A field survey conducted by a team of marine scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has uncovered toxic bacteria living on the surfaces of microplastics, which are pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimetres in size, collected from the coastal areas of Singapore.

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