Plastic pollution could linger at ocean surfaces for over a century, new research finds

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Oct 23, 2025, 9:38 am98 pts
Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column and they predict it could take over 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface.

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