ENVIRONMENT : ALL ABOUT MICROPLASTICS

ALL ABOUT MICROPLASTICS

14,516 views•Oct 14, 2020

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The world's sea floor is littered with an estimated 14 million tonnes of microplastics, broken down from the masses of rubbish entering the oceans every year, according to Australia's national science agency.

 

The quantity of the tiny pollutants was 25 times greater than previous localised studies had shown, the agency said, calling it the first global estimate of sea-floor microplastics.

 

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