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Microplastics on sea floor
October 12 , 2020
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- CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), an Australian government agency, has recently found that the world sea floor is littered with more than 14 million tonnes of microplastics.
- These microplastics have entered the floor through the breakdown of masses of rubbish entering the oceans annually.
- This is the first time the sea floor microplastic study has been carried out.
- Microplastics are small pieces of plastic that are of size 5 mm or less.
- They are mostly derived from the breaking down of larger plastic items.
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