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Over half of marine plastic on the Tarragona Coast is from microfibers

"up to 57% of all the plastics analysed from sea water are microscopic fibres from clothes...The next step is to study whether the smallest plastics – that’s to say, nanoplastics – can cross the membranes of cells in the liver, kidney and nervous system." - Excerpt from URV Activ@

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