Scientists from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands say more than half of the plastics in the ocean are located at the ocean surface, not just 1 percent as previously assumed.
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There might be less plastic littering the ocean than scientists previously thought, but what is there could persist for a long time, according to a new study by a team of researchers from the, Utrecht University, in The Netherlands.
Scientists based in the Netherlands and Germany carried out 3D computer modelling using extensive observational data and measurements taken from surface water, beaches and the deep ocean from 1980 to 2020.
The modelling study estimated that pieces of plastic.