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- Researchers at Plymouth Marine Laboratory are looking into the ability of mussels to filter microplastics from water.
- In their lab-based experiments, 5 kilograms of mussels released a quarter of a million pieces of plastics per hour.
- This natural filtration method could provide a cost-effective and environmentally safe solution for removing plastic from the oceans.
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