Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Royal Netherlands
Institute for Sea Research

Rachel Ndhlovu

PhD student
Phone number
+31 (0)222 36 9459
Location
Texel
Function
PhD student
University
Universiteit Utrecht
Promotor
Helge Niemann

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Monday 23 January 2023
Bacteria really eat plastic
The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats and actually digests plastic. This has been shown in laboratory experiments by PhD student Maaike Goudriaan at Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). Based on a model study with plastic in artificial…
Wednesday 11 January 2023
Sunlight pulps the plastic soup
UV light from the sun slowly breaks down plastics on the ocean’s surfaces. Floating microplastic is broken down into ever smaller, invisible nanoplastic particles that spread across the entire water column, but also to compounds that can then be…