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How Marine Animals Could Be Used to Clean Up Nature’s Big Pollutant: Microplastics Nature s perfect filtering machines to the rescue
UConn s Water Pollution Control Facility. Researchers are testing the abilities of certain kinds of shellfish to remove microplastics from water (courtesy of Baikun Li). Copy Link
On a hot summer day in Connecticut, it’s common to go to a beach-side restaurant, eat some fresh oysters and mussels, and enjoy the crashing of the waves against the sand. For a group of University of Connecticut faculty and a Florida Atlantic University professor, their plan is to skip the beach and the restaurant and use relatives of those delicious animals for another reason filtering the harmful microplastics that end up back in our environment.