Invisible plastic fragments in the ocean can be thousands of times smaller than a human hair

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Invisible plastic fragments in the ocean can be thousands of times smaller than a human hair

Invisible to the naked eye, nanoplastics are now the most abundant form of ocean pollution, filling the seas with trillions of particles that are significantly smaller than a single strand of human hair.

Nanoplastics are smaller than one micrometer, making them thousands of times thinner than a human hair. These invisible fragments are so pervasive that an estimated 27 million tons float in the North Atlantic alone, solving the mystery of 'missing' plastic that researchers could not previously account for in global tallies.

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