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New Zealand researchers found that fish living closer to a city had more microplastics in their bodies than those found in a rural area.
Researchers in New Zealand collected adult mottled triplefins at three sites around Dunedin , a city of about 130,000 people on the country's South Island .
Fish collected 1.6 miles ( 2.5 kilometers ) and 6.2 miles ( 10 kilometers ) away from the city center ingested significantly more.
In fact, fish collected at the furthest site took in 8.5 times less plastic than the site closest to Dunedin .
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