William Bailey with sediment core (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

William Bailey with sediment core

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William Bailey, the lead author of the study and a graduate student at the Jackson School of Geosciences, with a sediment core from a Texas bay. The researchers found relatively few microplastic fragments and fibers in these samples.

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