A collaborative research team has recently revealed that rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in both fresh and ocean water around the world, are able to chew apart microplastics, breaking them down into even smaller, and potentially more dangerous, nanoplastics — or particles smaller than one micron. Each rotifer can create between 348,000 — 366,000 per day, leading to uncountable swarms of nanoparticles in our environment.
A collaborative research team has recently revealed that rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in both fresh and ocean water around the world, are able to chew apart microplastics, breaking them down into even smaller, and potentially more dangerous, nanoplastics — or particles smaller than one micron. Each rotifer can create between 348,000 — 366,000 per day, leading to uncountable swarms of nanoparticles in our environment. A collaborative research team has recently revealed that rotifers, a kind of microscopic zooplankton common in both fresh and ocean water around the world, are able to chew apart microplastics, breaking them down into even smaller, and potentially more dangerous, nanoplastics — or particles smaller than one micron. Each rotifer can create between 348,000 — 366,000 per day, leading to uncountable swarms of nanoparticles in our environment.