Estimates of plastic in Atlantic ‘massively underestimated’
Published: 12:35, 18 August 2020
| Updated: 12:30, 25 August 2020
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Estimates of how much plastic has been dumped in the Atlantic Ocean have been “massively underestimated”, experts say.
The mass of so-called invisible microplastics found in the upper waters of the Atlantic is around 12-21 million tonnes, new research suggests.
But...