Plastic On Ocean Floor

There s even more plastic on the ocean floor than on its surface by douglas main on 12 17 14 at 7 54 am est microplastic fibers extracted from a sediment core in the southwest indian ocean.
Plastic on ocean floor. There is more plastic embedded in the sea floor 9 25 million to 15 87 million tons than floating on the ocean s surface researchers in australia have found in what a scientist called the. In the open ocean the uv and wave action would act on that plastic and the surface would be clean again. The harmful plastic debris has been pulled down by powerful deep sea currents that create microplastic hotspots a deep sea equivalent of so called garbage patches created by currents on the ocean. What happens when you get to the deep sea there s no dispersal or flushing.
Csiro study finds 14 million tonnes of plastic on ocean floor plastic and other garbage settled at the bottom of the adriatic sea.