Scientists are worried about plastic and oil joining together to create a new form of ocean pollution.
For years, environmental groups have warned of the dangers from microplastics reaching San Francisco Bay.Peter Roopnarine with the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco said taken together, plastics and microplastics present a significant threat to marine life and the coastal environment.
But now, researchers believe plastics are combining with a second substance, oil, to create a different form of pollution. “So anything that any process that can aggregate these small particles, which we know dense petroleum can, is going to aggregate microplastics,” Roopnarine said. “So we have a lot of ships coming and going. And they’re coming and going through some of the most biodiverse waters in the world,” Jennifer Stack said. “So we are always looking to how to best take care of these waters to prevent oil spills from happening.”
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