Microplastics

Research Area: Plastic pollution

Microplastics

There are more than 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the world’s oceans. An estimated 10 per cent of the plastics we produce end up in the sea. Researchers from the University of Exeter are leading the way in investigating the effect this has on marine life and calling for plastic microbeads to be removed from cosmetics.

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Tamara Galloway, Ceri Lewis