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With the alarming rate of one garbage truck’s worth of plastic being dumped into the ocean every minute, and projections indicating a potential doubling of plastic use by 2040... continue reading at earth.com...
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Ocean floor harbors up to 11 million tons of plastic debris 

The study reveals that the amount of plastic found on the ocean floor could surpass surface plastic by up to 100 times. 

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> .. “plastic does stand out because of its large quantities, high buoyancy and slow degradation — all of which potentially contribute to broader dispersion of the #PlasticDebris,” #AndreyShcherbina, an oceanographer at the #UniversityOfWashington.. logs decompose after a while, plastic can easily travel across the world’s oceans, introducing animal hitchhikers to other fragile ecosystems such as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument on the shores of the #HawaiianArchipelago..
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"Researchers fear that #plasticdebris floating in masses of seaweed sargassum is a breeding ground for flesh-eating Vibrio bacteria. Vibrio are extremely aggressive and can seek out & stick to plastic within minutes." 4ocean

https://news.yahoo.com/experts-raise-alarm-over-flesh-173000020.html

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Phys.orgApr 17, 2023

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-coastal-species-persist-high-seas.html
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Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1648028566481694745#m

Coastal species persist on #highseas on floating #plasticdebris @NatureEcoEvo https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01997-y https://phys.org/news/2023-04-coastal-species-persist-high-seas.html

Coastal species persist on high seas on floating plastic debris

The high seas have been colonized by a surprising number of coastal marine invertebrate species, which can now survive and reproduce in the open ocean, contributing strongly to the floating community composition. This finding was published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution by a team of researchers led by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa.

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