The plastic garbage appeared less "hardy" thanks to a sunlight

There is the reasonable stereotype saying that the majority of plastics decay for eyelids, and even in the millennia. However recent research showed that it not always so — one of the most "long-living" polymers under the influence of a sunlight decays very quickly. On light polystyrene is oxidized air and breaks up to carbon dioxide and various organic compounds. Parfenov Vasilii Group of the American scientists from Oceanographic institute in Woods-Houle studied process of decomposition of polystyrene under the influence of light...