There may be more plastic floating just beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean today than the estimated total weight of plastic waste dumped in ...
PARIS: There may be more plastic floating just beneath the surface of the Atlantic ocean today than the estimated total weight of plastic waste dumped in it since 1950, new research showed Tuesday .
To remedy this, researchers from Britain's National Oceanography Centre analysed the plastic collected in samples from 12 sites spanning 10,000km of Atlantic Ocean. That upper figure is higher than all estimated plastic input into the Atlantic since the middle of the last century. The research found that the upper 200 metres of the Atlantic - home to the vast majority of its sea life - contained up to 20 million tonnes of microplastic.Pabortsava said her study, published in Nature Communications, highlighted the need to better assess ocean plastic levels with"considerable urgency".
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