A new UC San Diego study reveals that fossil fuel-based plastic pollution may be promoting toxic water conditions by removing animals that keep water at safe levels. Biologically based plastics had a much smaller impact.
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    Researchers in UC San Diego’s Department of Ecology…

    …The biodegradable plastic included sustainable material developed in UC San Diego laboratories and sold by the university spinoff company Algenesis.

    I’d like to see the reproductability of this one. Another thing is they only compared PU, one of the nastiest plastics which should be banned. I think most plastics in use today are packaging plastics like PE, PP, PET, PS. Not that I like those ones better, we could do without a lot of the plastics we have today, and we don’t even need replacement in a lot of cases.