Plastic Bags Emit Methane and Ethylene

According to Mother Nature Network, Dr. Sarah-Jeanne Royer at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, has discovered that plastics release the greenhouse gases, methane, and ethylene which are linked to global warming. Dr. Royer was running tests to see how much methane naturally formed in ocean water when she realized that the plastic bottles she put the ocean water samples in were generating more methane than the organisms in the water. Dr.