Sunlight degrades polystyrene faster than expected

ScienceDaily
Oct 10, 2019, 8:57 am477 ptsHot
Researchers show that polystyrene, one of the world's most ubiquitous plastics, may degrade in decades or centuries when exposed to sunlight, rather than thousands of years as previously thought.

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