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“The use of plastics in society first came into being on a large scale in about the 1920s, and we see a big increase from the 1960s onwards,”

Andy Macdonald · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-25

Macdonald explains the historical emergence of microplastics in archived soil samples.

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