Scientists recently estimated, for the first time, that the North Atlantic Ocean contains millions of tons of nanoplastics.
To measure it, they used a detection method that picks up the chemical markers, or smell, of trace amounts of burned plastic.
It's long been speculated that the oceans hold significant amounts of nanoplastics. but no one had managed to quantify them until now.
by Shanna Hanbury
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Scientists use the ‘smell of burned plastic’ to measure nanoplastics in the ocean
Scientists recently estimated, for the first time, that the North Atlantic Ocean contains millions of tons of nanoplastics. To measure it, they use...
