Dedicated to all contemporaries who suffer from plastophobia! The power of sun radiation breaks down plastic on the surface of the oceans!
Neither of the two articles below mentions anything whether these compounds are toxic or otherwise dangerous. Possibly, some of these compounds may even be nutrition.
"Sunlight can chemically breakdown plastics into tens of thousands of new compounds that in just weeks and many of these dissolve in water ... he discovery dispels the prevalent theory that sunlight exposure simply physically fragments macroplastics into microplastics in the marine environment, turning them into smaller particles that are chemically similar to the original material and persist in the environment."
"Sunlight exposure is a control of long-term plastic fate in the environment that converts plastic into oxygenated products spanning the polymer, dissolved, and gas phases. However, our understanding of how plastic formulation influences the amount and composition of these photoproducts remains incomplete. ..."
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