{"id":33358,"date":"2018-10-30T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33358"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:28:39","slug":"how-marine-organisms-degrade-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-marine-organisms-degrade-plastic-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"How marine organisms degrade plastic bags\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/how-marine-organisms-degrade-plastic-bags\/article21386109.ece\"><strong>How marine organisms degrade plastic bags<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><strong>: They add to spread of microplastics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A single plastic grocery bag could be shredded by marine organisms into over one million microscopic fragments, a study has found<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amphipod: Orchestiagammarellus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marine scientists at the University of Plymouth examined the rate at which bags were broken down by the amphipod <em>Orchestiagammarellus<\/em>, which inhabits coastal areas in northern and western Europe<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main aim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their main aim was to discover whether different types of plastic and the presence of a biofilm \u2014 a layer of organic material which accumulates over time \u2014 altered the rate at which such organisms broke down plastic debris<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four times as quickly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through monitoring in the laboratory and on the shoreline, researchers demonstrated the bags were torn and stretched by <em>Orchestiagammarellus<\/em>, with microplastics subsequently being found in and around their faecal matter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presence of biofilm enhanced the shredding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The type of plastic \u2014 conventional, degradable and biodegradable \u2014 had no effect on the rate of ingestion, however the presence of a biofilm meant the shredding took place around four times as quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How marine organisms degrade plastic bags\u00a0 Context: They add to spread of microplastics A single plastic grocery bag could be shredded by marine organisms into over one million microscopic fragments, a study has found Amphipod: Orchestiagammarellus Marine scientists at the University of Plymouth examined the rate at which bags were broken down by the amphipod&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-marine-organisms-degrade-plastic-bags\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How marine organisms degrade plastic bags\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704761200},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}