"Microplastics have been found in mussels everywhere scientists have looked"

Mussels might serve as a global "bioindicator of microplastic pollution," Chinese researchers suggested last year, as the creatures remain in the same area, unlike fish, and reside on the seabed where plastics can end up. They might have been right - a new study from the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) uncovered plastic in 76.6 percent of individual blue mussels. Reuters pointed to other studies where researchers found microplastics near China, Belgium, Britain, Canada, and Chile -...

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