> Microplastics absorb or carry organic contaminants, such as PCBs, pesticides, flame retardants and hormone-disrupting compounds of many kinds, he says. I won

> Microplastics absorb or carry organic contaminants, such as PCBs, pesticides, flame retardants and hormone-disrupting compounds of many kinds, he says. I wonder if this absorption of high surface plastics could get used to actually filter out those organic compounds from highly contaminated waters. For instance the baltic sea has high content of them, that even lead to some heated debates in the EU, as Sweden and Finland allow the sale of contaminated baltic fish.