Ten ‘stealth microplastics’ to avoid if you want to save the oceans

Jan 19, 2018

Rubbish is pictured at Bica beach, on the banks of the Guanabara Bay, with the Sugar Loaf mountain in background, 500 days ahead the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro March 24, 2015. As part of its Olympic bid, Rio promised to clean up 80 percent of the bay for the games. But local government officials have already admitted that a cleanup by 2016 is not achievable. Despite millions of dollars of investment over the years, the bay still stinks of sewage. Sailors who visited the city for test events complained of a floating sofa and a dead dog in the water. To match OLYMPICS-BRAZIL/RUBBISH REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

Microbeads are among the most familiar sources of tiny plastic pollution. Image: REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

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