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Groundbreaking Polymer Could Fix Agriculture's Plastic Pollution Problem
 
By Alfredo Carpineti
26 Jul 2018, 12:28

Plastic pollution in soil might not get the same attention as plastic in the ocean, but it is a big problem. The soil is being impoverished by agricultural practice involving polyethylene films. Researchers now have a solution. They have demonstrated that an alternative polymer biodegrades in agricultural soil, a welcome result. This research is published in Science Advances.

The polymer in the study is poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) or PBAT for short. It had been previously shown that this material can be biodegraded, but the researchers wanted to demonstrate how to track the biodegradation in soils.

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/groundbreaking-polymer-could-fix-agricultures-plastic-pollution-problem/

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