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We estimate there are up to 14 million tonnes of microplastics on the seafloor. It's worse than we thought

  • Written by Britta Denise Hardesty, Principal Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, CSIRO
We estimate there are up to 14 million tonnes of microplastics on the seafloor. It's worse than we thoughtShutterstock

Nowhere, it seems, is immune from plastic pollution: plastic has been reported in the high Arctic oceans, in the sea ice around Antarctica and even in the world’s deepest waters of the Mariana Trench.

But just how bad is the problem? Our new research provides the first global estimate of microplastics on the seafloor — our...

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