What happens to plastic products that end up in the ocean, left to weather in the sun? A group of researchers set out to look at how this process plays out on a chemical level. Some of that waste gets concentrated into gyres, or massive systems of rotating ocean currents, said Aron Stubbins, a professor at Northeastern University. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, for example, is located inside one of them. In sun-drenched tropical and subtropical gyres, sunlight slowly degrades floating plastics
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What happens to plastic products that end up in the ocean, left to weather in the sun? A group of researchers set out to look at how this process plays out on a chemical level. Some of that waste gets concentrated into gyres, or massive systems of rotating ocean currents, said Aron Stubbins, a professor at Northeastern University. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, for example, is located inside one of them. In sun-drenched tropical and subtropical gyres, sunlight slowly degrades floating plastics
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