Microplastics are extremely small pieces of plastic debris in the environment resulting from the disposal and breakdown of consumer products and industrial waste.
Scientists have created a biodegradable plant-based polymer plastic to replace regular plastic in the long-term. The researchers found that 97 percent of the bioplastic broke down within 200 days.
There are two new affordable housing projects in City Heights. Developer Wakeland Housing held a grand opening for City Heights Place and City Heights Plaza Del Sol Friday. In other news, we hear a preview of a new KPBS series about the child care crisis in San Diego. Plus, along the edge of San Diego's freeways, patches of wildflowers are bursting to life. We learn about the history behind why there are so many blooms on highway medians.
Long-time Slashdot reader HanzoSpam shared an announcement from the University of California San Diego.
The school s researchers teamed with materials-science company Algenesis to show "that their plant-based polymers biodegrade — even at the microplastic level — in under seven months..
Microplastics are small, practically indestructible fragments shed by ordinary plastic items. The news becomes worse as more information regarding microplastics becomes available. Microplastics are known to exist in soil, seas, and even the most unlikely places the arteries, lungs, and placenta.