7-year study reveals plastic fragments from all over the globe are rising rapidly in the North Pacific Garbage Patch - IOP Publishing

7-year study reveals plastic fragments from all over the globe are rising rapidly in the North Pacific Garbage Patch .

Researchers hypothesise that these fragments from the break-down of decades old plastics discarded globally are now accumulating and exponentially increasing in this remote region of the Pacific Ocean .

The volume of plastic debris in the region surpasses that of living organisms, threatening the ecosystem.