Are plastics a problem in Delaware Bay?

For more than two decades, Jonathan Cohen has studied the tiniest marine life found in bays and oceans around the world.

Throughout those years, the University of Delaware assistant professor said, he has often found something unnatural tagging along in each sample of bay water: Plastics.

Finding plastic fragments, clothing fibers and microbeads from body scrubs under his microscope made Cohen question how common the tiny microplastics are in Delaware waterways.

“The Delaware Bay is sort of an unknown world in terms of microplastics,” he said. “We want to contribute to the larger conversation that people are having across the world about plastics.”

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