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Estimates of plastic in Atlantic ‘massively underestimated’


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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.

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