REPORT: 8–14 million tons of microplastics are polluting the ocean floor

(Natural News) There could be some eight to 14 million tons of microplastic sitting at the bottom of the ocean, according to a groundbreaking report said to be the first global estimate of microplastics on the ocean floor. Published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, the report offers a glimpse of the scale of microplastics...