Bacteria-sized robots take on microplastics and win by breaking them down

ScienceDaily
Jun 10, 2021, 1:57 pm527 ptsHot
Small pieces of plastic are everywhere, stretching from urban environments to pristine wilderness. Left to their own devices, it can take hundreds of years for them to degrade completely. Catalysts activated by sunlight could speed up the process, but getting these compounds to interact with microplastics is…

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