Plastic goes missing at sea
Survey of world’s oceans finds far less polymer trash than expected

PLASTIC PERIL Trash-strewn beaches around the world hint at the amount of plastic trash that ends up in the ocean. Now a global survey has found far less marine plastic than scientists expected.
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