#photodegrade — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #photodegrade, aggregated by home.social.
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https://phys.org/news/2023-12-potentially-chemical-byproducts-left-sunlight.html
#polystyrene…produced "a higher diversity of chemicals" than the #polyethylene and #polypropylene.
"Once you #photodegrade them—especially, polystyrene—the chemicals can recombine and produce hundreds of different chemicals."
"The microlayer covers the whole ocean, which represents 70% of the Earth's surface…If you alter the chemistry of that layer, you're altering the barrier between sea and air, and altering the exchange of material including climate-active gases."