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Marine & Wildlife
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Microplastics Degradation Mechanism by Aquatic Plastiomes: A Review
Environmental science and engineering
2024
19 citations
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Surajita Sahu,
Alok Prasad Das
Summary
Researchers reviewed how aquatic microorganisms can break down plastic debris into microplastics and potentially degrade plastic polymers further, exploring whether natural 'plastisphere' communities might be harnessed as a biological tool to reduce ocean plastic pollution.
Considering the increasing amount of plastic waste in the oceans, it is now obvious that plastic pollution poses a global societal and ecological concern. Discarded plastic pollutants gradually gets fragmented into microplastics (MPs) under the action of various...