New detection devices could record microplastic pollution levels in real time

Mongabay
Sep 11, 2019, 6:25 pm1.4k ptsInterestingTop
The scope of the microplastic pollution problem is astonishing. While nations need to slow the rate of plastics entering Earth’s waters, discovering what the density of it is, and where it is, is critical to know especially where such areas overlap with large populations of filter feeding organisms, for…

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