Plastic pollution represents a global environmental challenge, and once in the environment plastic can fragment into smaller and smaller pieces.
Plastic pollution represents a global environmental challenge, and once in the environment plastic can fragment into smaller and smaller pieces.
A new study shows for the first time that some of the tiniest particles found in the environment can be absorbed into the edible sections of crops during the growing process.
The research used radishes to demonstrate, for the first time, that nanoplastics – some measuring as little as one millionth of a centimetre in diameter – can enter the roots, before spreading and accumulating into the edible parts of the plant.
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