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Close up view of a remnant of a plastic bag found on the beach.

Close up view of a remnant of a plastic bag found on the beach.
Close up view of a remnant of a plastic bag found on the beach.
Close up view of a remnant of a plastic bag found on the beach.
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Mincer, Tracy
Close up view of a remnant of a plastic bag found on the beach.
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12/22/2009
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 48, No. 2, pg. 22, this image is 1 of 3 used with this caption:
This is a close-up of a remnant of a plastic trash bag collected from the Atlantic. Tracy Mincer, a biogeochemist at WHOI, zoomed in even further and found curious things happening on the surface of this plastic particle. Magnified 10,000 times by a scanning electron microscope, this teensy bit of plastic that was floating in the ocean reveals organisms (colorized in blue) nestled in surface nooks and crannies. Patches of stringy-looking substances secreted by organisms festoon the plastic like party streamers.
Photo by Tracy Mincer
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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