Missing ocean plastics ‘eaten by animals’
Jul.01, 2014 in
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Planet plastic The amount of plastic floating on the ocean surface is less than expected according to scientists who have mapped plastic pollution in the world’s oceans.
But, they say, that’s likely to be because the food chain is soaking up the smaller particles of plastic, known as microplastics.
“Based on trends in plastic pollution we expected to find about 100 times more plastic than we actually found,” says study co-author Professor Carlos Duarte from the University of Western Australia….
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