The water samples collected in the gyre contained on average 0.62 micro-plastics per cubic meter of sea water, compared with an average of 0.19MP/m3 in other areas of open ocean, and 0.4MP/m3 in ...

Researchers have made micro plastic measurements in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. In the first 200 meters of the water layer, they estimate that there are approximately 12 to 21 million ...

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You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the ... They are too small to be filtered out by waste water plants and end up being consumed by small marine ...