#plastic trash

Researchers in Japan have now made a new paper-based material that could be an ideal replacement for those single-use plastics. The millimeter-thick paperboard reported in the journal Science Advances behaves like plastic, but only when needed. It is strong, transparent and shapeable, and it can hold boiling water, but it degrades within a year after settling on the ocean floor.

Latoddtodd suggested by @plutoprophecy

plastic trash -- princess of misery

August abstract challenge - trash

found plastic trash

In 2016, she and her students at Vancouver Island University planted thousands of clams and oysters across coastal British Columbia and let them soak in the sand and saltwater of the Strait of Georgia. Three months later, they dissolved hundreds of them with chemicals, filtered out the biodegradable matter and looked at the remaining material under a microscope. Inside this Pacific Northwest culinary staple, they found a rainbow of little plastic particles.

Why a penguin to talk about plastic trash in the ocean? Well, penguins have a penchant for finding trash. Many species of penguins are actually nestbuilders, and all sorts of strange items have been founds in nests!