Plastic in the deep sea: Virtually unaltered after a quarter of a century
Thursday, June 11, 2020 - 12:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Plastic products are durable. On one hand this is a great advantage, but on the other hand, if the plastic enters the environment, this advantage turns into a problem. According to current knowledge, natural degradation, as with organic matter, does not take place. It can only be estimated, how long plastic debris actually remains in the environment. Corresponding long-term experiments are lacking.