Plastic fragments found ingested by deep-sea animals | The Malaysian Insight

More than 300 million tonnes of plastics are produced annually, and there are at least five trillion plastic pieces floating in our oceans. – EPA pic, February 27, 2019.

ANIMALS living in the deepest ocean trenches have been found with plastic fragments in their gut, according to new research published today showing how man-made pollution reaches into the bowels of the planet. More than 300 million tonnes of plastics are produced annually, and there are at least five trillion plastic pieces floating in our oceans.

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