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Environment
Stephen Beech

New Catalyst Breaks Down Fishing Nets And Nylon-6, Offering A Solution To Plastic Pollution

Durable plastic pollution - such as fishing nets - can be easily degraded without leaving harmful by-products thanks to a new high-tech process. KAROLINA GRABOWSKI/PEXELS

Durable plastic pollution – such as fishing nets – can be easily degraded without leaving harmful by-products thanks to a new high-tech process.

Disturbing images of wildlife – including sea turtles, dolphins and seals – tangled in abandoned fishing nets have become all too common.

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