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Abstract Concern over plastic pollution of the marine environment is severe. The mass-imbalance between the plastic litter supplied to and observed in the ocean currently suggests a missing sink. However, here we show that the ocean interior conceals high loads of small-sized plastic debris which can balance and even exceed the estimated plastic inputs into …

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Atlantic ocean holds 10x more plastic pollution than previously believed, new study finds The amount of plastic in the ocean has been ‘massively underestimated’, according to a National Oceanography Centre study.Researchers estimate that the Atlantic’s total plastic load is around 200 million tonnes (approximately 220.4 million U.S. tons).There is at least 10 times more plastic …

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