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Invasive water hyacinths are effective at removing microplastics, study finds (news.mongabay.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t get why you would then suggest farming the leaves only.

They were suggesting using the leaves as food for livestock, so you would not want the plastics in it. This is a guess, but I think they were just trying to say it could be a dual purpose "crop" since the leaves don't contain any microplastics