Dr Royer found that the most widely-used plastic, the stuff used to make shopping bags, is the one that produces the greatest amount of these warming gases.<\/p>\n

At the end of the study, after 212 days in the sun, this plastic emitted 176 times more methane than at the start of the experiment.<\/p>\n

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