Some 14 million tonnes of microplastics pollute ocean floor: study

Visakhapatnam Port Trust Sets Record Of Shipping 72.72 Million Tonnes Of Cargo During 2019

The Visakhapatnam Port Trust shipped a record 72.72 million tonnes of cargo during the 2019-20 financial year against 65.30 million tonnes handled in 2018-19, accounting to an increase of 11 per cent, said Visakhapatnam port trust chairman K Ram Mohan Rao on Tuesday.

Study looks at how much plastic is settling to the bottom of the ocean

The study, from Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, estimates there is 14 million metric tons of microplastics sitting on the ocean floor. That would be more than 35x as much plastic scientists believe is floating on the surface of the ocean.

We estimate there are up to 14 million tonnes of microplastics on the seafloor. It's worse than we thought

Nowhere, it seems, is immune from plastic pollution: plastic has been reported in the high Arctic oceans, in the sea ice around Antarctica and even in the world's deepest waters of the Mariana Trench.

14 million tons of microplastics on seafloor, study finds

Plastic pollution has been found in the most remote regions of Earth.

About 14 million tonnes of microplastics on ocean floor: Australian study - Xinhua

Some 14 million tonnes of microplastics pollute ocean floor: study

There are about 14 million tonnes of microplastics on the seafloor, an Australian study published on Tuesday revealed.