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Surface plastic particles across the world's oceans
The amount of plastic waste, from tiny microplastics to larger macroplastics, floating on the surface of the world's oceans, measured by mass, excluding plastics found at depth or on the seafloor in each area of ocean.
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Eriksen et al. (2014)
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