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The largest UK-wide, microplastic citizen science campaign to date, has revealed microplastics present in every UK waterway tested. Plastics were also f...
The UK's largest citizen science project of its kind looking at plastic pollution is underway at Bangor University. Water samples from all over the country have arrived at the university, to see how many microplastic fragments they contain. The water, from rivers and lakes, have been collected by an army of volunteer outdoor swimmers and transported in... wine bottles. Once at the university the water-filled wine bottles are carefully analysed by Dr Christian Dunn and a team of research students for the tiny pieces of plastic floating in them. "We wanted to look at as many different...