Florida Sea Grant. Creative Commons In the UK, the issue of plastic pollution in the oceans has reached the main stream media, with BBC Television programs such as Blue Planet II inspiring viewers to reduce their plastic usage. It seems every day we read reports of just how contaminated our [...]
a plastic microbead from a facewash, taken via scanning electron microscopy; it is about 0.5mm wide. Andrew Watts, University of Exeter A number of countries have now banned, or indicate that they will ban, plastic microbeads, the pesky little pieces of plastic that are used as exfoliants and [...]
