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Plastisphere Paradox: How Microplastic Garbage Patches Could Hold the Key to Their Own Cleanup
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Plastisphere Paradox: How Microplastic Garbage Patches Could Hold the Key to Their Own Cleanup
Microplastics—plastic fragments smaller than five millimeters—have become a planetary threat, infiltrating oceans, soils, and even the air we breathe. Their surfaces harbor complex microbial communities known as the plastisphere, which act as dangerous vectors for pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Yet within these same biofilms lie microorganisms with the potential to degrade synthetic polymers.
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