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Fiddler crabs break down microplastics - Exeter University study (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Researchers studied the "thriving" species in a polluted mangrove forest in Colombia.

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[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this stuff is basically undigestable except by specific enzymes or processes. In general, you can pretty much just count on it getting smaller and smaller and more bio-reactive and more prevalent in smaller and smaller life/environmental systems unless it's chemically destroyed/remediation or filtered and removed from the environment.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

I’m holding out for Plastic Man powers