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From the study "A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required"
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English: "For the period with extensive sample coverage (1990–2015), there is substantial variability until 2004, which could be interpreted as stagnation or a decreasing trend; however, from 2005 onward, there is a consistent and rapid increase in plastic abundance (Fig 3). Based on our model results, we estimate that 82–358 trillion plastic particles (mean = 171 trillion plastic particles, primarily microplastics, weighing 1.1–4.9 million tonnes (mean = 2.3 million tonnes) were afloat in 2019 (Table 1)." |
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Authors of the study: Marcus Eriksen, Win Cowger, Lisa M. Erdle, Scott Coffin, Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez, Charles J. Moore, Edward J. Carpenter, Robert H. Day, Martin Thiel, Chris Wilcox |
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