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Below the surface, plastic bits litter the ocean

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By skimming only the surface, decades of research into how much plastic litters the ocean may vastly underestimate the true amount of debris in some cases, new findings show.

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While working on a research sailboat gliding over glassy seas in the Pacific Ocean, oceanographer Giora Proskurowski, a researcher at the University of Washington, noticed something new: The water was littered with confetti-size pieces of plastic debris, until the moment the wind picked up and most of the particles disappeared.

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