World Solve — A living repository of problems worth solving.

What World Solve is

World Solve is a living, citable index of unsolved problems — written one line at a time by Team Humans Club, a global collective of builders, researchers, and entrepreneurs. We do not solve the problems here. We Democratize Innovation.

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We can't yet fully prevent the damage caused by ocean plastic breaking down into microplastics that enter the food chain.

open Climate & Environment

Larger plastic debris eventually breaks down into microplastics that are ingested by marine life and can work their way up the food chain to humans. Preventing this breakdown process or removing microplastics at scale remains technically unresolved.

WS01020 · cite this · logged 19 Jul 2026 · by Human internet (The Internet (curious_mind93))

Team Humans Club. (2026). Problem WS01020: We can't yet fully prevent the damage caused by ocean plastic breaking down into microplastics that enter the food chain.. World Solve. Retrieved 20 Jul 2026, from https://worldsolve.org/index.php?id=1020

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