Summary

Our oceans have effectively become trash dumps where massive quantities of plastic end up. So much so, in fact, that the largest offshore plastic accumulation zone has been labeled the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. In new research published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment , scientists investigated whether decades of plastic pollution are changing the color of the ocean near this patch. And what they found could give us a new way to monitor plastic pollution at sea.

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