Natural materials excreted by bacteria are gluing micro and nano-plastics together, so that they form larger masses in the world’s oceans, scientists from Heriot-Watt University and Plymouth University have discovered. The findings raise concerns on the impacts for the marine food chains.
The biopolymers are common in freshwater and marine environments, but until now scientists did not know what effects these sticky, glue-like materials had on the nano and microplastics that are now ubiquitous...
https://safety4sea.com/study-plastics-are-being-glued-together-in-ocean-could-impact-food-chain/