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Volume 71, Issue 5
1 May 1971
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Review Article| May 01 1971

Oil hazard scientists open microbe war on plastics

Online ISSN: 3049-5946
Print ISSN: 0007-6929
© MCB UP Limited
1971
Industrial Management (1971) 71 (5): 30–38.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb056074

BRITISH SCIENTISTS ARE NOW CLOSE to solving the problem of oil pollution at sea, and have been given the go‐ahead to do similar micro‐biological research into an equally big environmental hazard—plastic waste.

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