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Microplastics in our mussels: the sea is feeding human garbage back to us
Shellfish are the natural filter systems of our seas, mechanisms of purity. So, to discover in a report released on World Oceans Day that mussels bought from UK supermarkets were infested with microplastic seems like a final irony in the terrible story of the plasticisation of the sea. According to the study by the University of Hull and Brunel University London, 70 particles of microplastic were found in every 100 grams of mussels.
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It's like we're on a race to destroy the planet. Let's see if we can do it any faster.
I have come to that conclusion as well.