The Bangor Daily News featured a UMaine student research study that found blue plastic tarp microplastics are affecting snails and slugs on Maine farms. Rachel White, a Ph.D. student in ecology and environmental sciences, created a synthetic stomach acid that dissolves the gastropods to look at parasites, but also found microplastics, particularly blue fibers like
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