User talk:Wylanz
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:08, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
Inzo's Peer review of plastic soup
[edit]Hey, I couldn't find a rough draft for your article, but I thought I could leave a few tips to improve it for when you start writing!
One overall thing is the grammar and language used in the article, I think a fair bit of it can be reworded to be more fluid and concise. E.g.
"Plastic soup is a term referring to pollution of the sea by plastics in general, ranging from large pieces of fishing gear that can entrap marine animals to the microplastics and nanoplastics that result from the breakdown or photodegradation of plastic waste in surface waters, rivers or oceans."
--> "Plastic soup is a term referring to pollution of the sea by plastics. These can range from large pieces of fishing gearto the microplastics and nanoplastics."
I think the article could use some structure and subheadings such as "history" to go into detail about the coining of the term.
One last thing I think would be beneficial would be other cases of "plastic soup" and different nation's success with dealing with it!