Ocean Floor a 'Reservoir' of Plastic Pollution
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In a deep underwater canyon more than 250 kilometers off the Argentine coast, researchers have found human waste. The largely plastic...
Far from the coast and several kilometres below the sea surface, there are still traces of human activities. In the Mar-del-Plata-Canyon off Argentina, a research team has discovered 29 human-made objects, 27 of which are made of plastic. The finds range to a depth of 3,814 meters and accumulate at certain points of the underwater canyon. Buenos Aires (Argentina). The deep sea was long regarded as largely [...] The article Plastic waste reaches …
Even the deep ocean does not escape plastic pollution. In a study published on 16 September in the scientific journal Plos One, a team of researchers reports having found debris of plastic objects up to the underwater canyon "Mar del Plata", in the south-west of the Atlantic, 250 kilometres from the coast of Argentina. Plastic bags, food packaging, fishing gear, a boot... During 10 of the 17 dives made between 800 and 3,900 meters of the sea, th…
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