Tackling chemical and plastic pollutants in the world’s oceans
…Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science to provide evidence of them dating back to the 1960s and trace their rate of increase across the following decades. In an influential 2004 paper in Science, the team coined the term ‘microplastics’ to describe these particles. They later revealed how a range of organisms could ingest microplastics and in some contexts these particles could transfer contaminants from sea water to marine life. This rese…