Not so biodegradable: Polylactic acid and cellulose/plastic blend textiles lack fast biodegradation in marine waters

• Sarah-Jeanne Royer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sroyer@ucsd.edu (S-JR); dddeheyn@ucsd.edu (DDD)

  Affiliations Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America, Center for Marine Debris Research, Hawaii Pacific University, Waimanalo, HI, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1070-8611

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• Francesco Greco,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Early Life & Environments and Department of Geology, State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Northwest University, 710069, Xi’an, China, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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• Michaela Kogler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lenzing AG, Lenzing, Austria

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• Dimitri D. Deheyn

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sroyer@ucsd.edu (S-JR); dddeheyn@ucsd.edu (DDD)

  Affiliation Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

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