Many of us have seen the photos of plastic refuse in the ocean, the large islands of bags and waste that collect at tidal crossroads. Yet when scientists took a survey of the ocean earlier this year, they found a suspicious amount had disappeared. Was it just our good luck that pollution was decreasing? Hardly.\u00a0It had simply been sinking, breaking apart and embedding itself in the sediment.Fibers of microplastic, which are similar in diameter to a human hair, have sunk into deep water reserves across the world. For every bag floating across the ocean\u2019s surface, there\u2019s much more of the stuff laying in the ocean floor underneath. How much plastic is there? Well, according to the research, it\u2019s so widespread that they\u2019ve estimated microplastic is on\u00a0every kilometer of the sea floor\u00a0across the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-26064","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n