Could this innovation provide a solution to one of our era’s biggest scourges?

For millennia, humans have used dried natural sponges to clean up, to paint and as vessels to consume fluids like water or honey; we’ve even used them as contraceptive devices. 

Whether synthetic or natural, sponges are great at ensnaring tiny particles in their many pores.

 And, as scientists around the world are beginning to show, sponges’ cavity-filled forms mean they could provide a solution to one of our era’s biggest scourges: microplastic pollution. 

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