microplastics

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Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf

Recycling "does not solve the solid waste problem," the head of a plastics trade group said in 1989, around the time the industry was launching its recycling campaign.
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Purdue study says microplastics could be making algae blooms worse in lakes, ponds

Rebecca Thiele

Tiny organisms like zooplankton eat algae helping to control it in lakes and ponds. But Purdue researchers say too many microplastics which are about the same size as that algae can get in zooplankton's way.