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Seafloor Plastic Pollution Is Not Going Anywhere
Eos
2023
Sofia Moutinho
Summary
This brief news piece reports that microplastic levels at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea are growing as global plastic production rises, and that breakdown of plastics in deep sediments is extremely slow. The finding reinforces that seafloor sediments are becoming permanent repositories of plastic pollution.
The amount of microplastics at the bottom of the Mediterranean is growing as global production increases and plastic breakdown is halted.