Here's something cool that doesn't suck. Researchers have used polymers made from shrimp and seaweed to make a fuzzy mesh that can harvest microplastics from water. Pretty neat. (short 🧵) news.ncsu.edu/2026/08/tang...
Tangled Seaweed Inspires One-Size-Fits-All Cleaners for Ocean Microplastics
The superadhesive meshes can capture large and small microplastic particles, and are made from sustainable biopolymers.
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