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Marine & Wildlife
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Far more microplastics floating in oceans than thought
2016
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Kara Lavender Law,
Erik van Sebille
Summary
A new sampling method revealed that southern ocean microplastic concentrations are 37 times higher than previously estimated, suggesting that existing models have dramatically underestimated the scale of plastic pollution in Earth's most remote marine environments.
New method tallies microplastics in southern oceans, yielding a total that’s 37 times higher than previous estimates.