How Microplastics Infiltrated Our Food (And One Way To Get Them Out)

Name: How Microplastics Infiltrated Our Food (And One Way To Get Them Out)
Uploaded: 2025
Duration: 18 min
Description: Oysters are powerful ecosystem engineers—they filter water, reduce ocean acidification, and build reefs that act as natural breakwaters, protecting our coasts. But the plastic gear used to farm them is doing irreversible harm to the very ecosystems oysters help restore. Abby Barrows, a marine scientist and microplastics researcher turned oyster farmer, is confronting this paradox head-on.

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Oysters are powerful ecosystem engineers—they filter water, reduce ocean acidification, and build reefs that act as natural breakwaters, protecting our coasts. But the plastic gear used to farm them is doing irreversible harm to the very ecosystems oysters help restore. Abby Barrows, a marine scientist and microplastics researcher turned oyster farmer, is confronting this paradox head-on.

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