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Jim East@slrpnk.net to Tree Huggers@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 month ago

Geoscientists prove for the first time that microplastics are stored in forests

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Geoscientists prove for the first time that microplastics are stored in forests

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Jim East@slrpnk.net to Tree Huggers@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 month ago
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Microplastics and nanoplastics are not only polluting our oceans, rivers and fields, but also our forests, according to geoscientists at TU Darmstadt. Their research is published in Communications Earth & Environment.
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    Wow, didn’t know that. So natural wood will be part plastic in the future?

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      Technically it already is, but it’s a very tiny amount of plastic in proportion to the mass of the tree.

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