Scientists Just Discovered an Entirely New Reason for Banning Plastics

No. On top of all the other bad things we can attribute to plastics pollution (the damage to marine life, the leaching of toxic chemicals into the environment, the making gross and unsightly of beaches, etc.) a team at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s Center for Microbial Oceanography has found one more: Plastics are releasing potent greenhouse gases, including methane and ethylene, into the atmosphere at an alarming rate. (Is there any of the kind of rate?)
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