Fewer worms live in mud littered with lots of microplastics
Scientists tracked how animals fared in the polluted sediment for over a year
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A new experiment on freshwater critters living in sediment with different amounts of microplastic contamination (pictured) shows that worms don’t do well amidst many tiny bits of plastic.
B. Koelmans