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Microplastics discovered in caddisfly casings from the 1970s suggest long-term contamination

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Microplastics discovered in caddisfly casings from the 1970s suggest long-term contamination

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Collapse@lemm.ee · 2 months ago

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A team of biologists working at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, a research museum in the Netherlands, has found evidence of caddisfly larvae using microplastics to build their casings as far back as the 1970s.

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The big wave was after 1950. This when our energy use and associated growth went into overdrive.

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