A recent study is the first to look at where chemicals in plastic end up after being broken down in a natural system—a yellow mealworm's gut, in this case
Researchers have developed a graphene-titania photocatalyst that degrades up to 70 percent more atmospheric nitrogen oxides than standard titania nanoparticles in tests on real pollutants
Very little is known about what kinds of microbes are in the Plastisphere—the biofilm that coats marine microplastics—and how they interact with one another and the plastic