University develops rapid method to remove microplastic
It's estimated the world's sea beds are littered with around 14-million tonnes of microplastics broken down from the vast amounts of rubbish dumped into oceans every year. Now a team at a University in Melbourne has developed a technique with the potential to offer a cost-effective solution to mop it all up.
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