Anja goes on a lab tour with Alexandra ter Halle from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse. The chemist and her team were the first to detect nanoplastic in the open ocean - plastic so small that it is comparable in size to a virus. What do we know about these very tiny pieces, and how do researchers try to detect and understand them?
The Plastisphere is a research and interview podcast by German freelance journalist Anja Krieger.
Transcript with links and pictures: http://anjakrieger.com/plastisphere/2018/09/14/ep-2-transcript/
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