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More than 170 trillion plastic particles found in the ocean as pollution reaches ‘unprecedented’ levels
Laura Paddison, CNN Plastics & Pollution
A team of international scientists analyzed global data collected between 1979 and 2019 from nearly 12,000 sampling points in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans and the Mediterranean Sea.
They found a “rapid and unprecedented” increase in ocean plastic pollution since 2005, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE.
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