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818: Matt Simon | How Microplastics Poison the Planet

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Trojan Horse Effect on Microplastics

The Plastosphere is a new ecosystem on planet Earth that we have created by loading the planet with plastic. Scientists are showing that these microplastics very readily come out of the ocean. There's speculation that this is contributing to the problems that corals are having in addition to ocean acidification and ocean warming. How much is microplastic contributing? Not quite sure yet. But again, not a good thing to have in any organism, that is for sure.

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