Estimating the age of microplastics in the upper ocean

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Researchers from Kyushu University and Asahi Kasei Corporation announce a new way to estimate the age of microplastics found in the upper oceans using plastic oxidation and the assessment of environmental factors.

By estimating the age of microplastics in the ocean, researchers are finding a difference between the degradation of offshore and nearshore microplastics

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