Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution, study finds

New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million metric tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. The article, "Plastics in the deep sea—A global estimate of the ocean floor reservoir," was published in Deep Sea Research Part I:... #plastics #plasticage #oceans #pollution #science #csiro #universityoftoronto #researchnews #environment #worldnews #oceanographicresearch #worldwithoutus

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ocean-floor-reservoir-plastic-pollution.html

Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution, study finds

New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million metric tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. The article, "Plastics in the deep sea—A global estimate of the ocean floor reservoir," was published in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.

Mostly due to Asia.

Asian countries are far from the only ones which use plastics.

this research looks at larger items, from nets and cups to plastic bags and everything in between."

Also found they cluster in shallow water around continents, plural.