Microplastic-Digesting Mussels

Published 2023-03

There’s a surprise hero in the effort to rid the world’s oceans of microplastics: mussels.

Verdict

renamedThe same phenomenon is listed again within two editions under a new name (D33).

A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).

rank: 655
section: Climate & Energy
subsection: Climate Trends / Ocean
subject: Microplastic-Digesting Mussels
page: 44
confidence: high
note: Appended 2026-10-02 after the existing entries (D15) by the contents audit (check_2023_contents.py, issue #26). The volume contents run over two pages; the first capture read only the first, so the trends listed on the second were missing.