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Diatoms (green) and bacteria (pink) living on ocean plastic. This is a false colour SEM image of part of the surface of a 5mm long plastic (yellow) from waters off eastern Tasmania, Australia. Julia Reisser and Jeremy Shaw

Creatures living on tiny ocean plastic may be cleaning our seas

Julia Reisser, The University of Western Australia; Charitha Pattiaratchi, The University of Western Australia, and Jeremy Shaw, The University of Western Australia

We know that Australia’s waters contain lots of tiny pieces of plastic, and that these pieces can harm many marine species. But in new research published today we show that these microplastics are also…

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