Plastic pollution: How one woman found a new source of warming gases hidden in waste
Source: BBC
Plastic pollution: How one woman found a new source of warming gases hidden in waste
By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent
2 August 2018
It's your classic movie eureka moment.
Young researcher Sarah-Jeanne Royer set out to measure methane gas coming from biological activity in sea water.
Instead, in a "happy accident" she found that the plastic bottles holding the samples were a bigger source of this powerful warming molecule than the bugs in the water.
Now she's published further details in a study into the potential warming impact of gases seeping from plastic waste.
"It was a totally unexpected discovery," Dr Royer told BBC News.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45043989
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