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Response to Comment on “The missing ocean plastic sink: Gone with the rivers”
Summary
Researchers responded to methodological criticisms of their study on the 'missing ocean plastic sink,' defending their field-measured data and river microplastic flux calculations as rigorous and correctly applied. They argued that critics misread their methods and that the conclusions about oceanic plastic residence time and novel contributions of the original study remain valid.
Mai <i>et al</i>. are mistaken in their assertions that we incorrectly calculated the residence time for floating microplastic stock at the ocean surface, and that most of our results are not novel. Their claim that our field-measured data and methods were not rigorous is wrong, as shown by a more careful consideration of what was done.
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