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Surface plastic mass by ocean basin
Quantity of plastic waste floating at the ocean surface within each of the world's ocean or marine basins. This is measured in terms of the mass of particles ranging from small microplastics to macroplastics. It includes only plastics within surface waters (and not at depth or on the seafloor).
Topics in this document
Ocean
Seabed
Physical geography
Environmental technology
Fisheries science
Nature
Marine biology
Aquatic ecology
Water
Environmental engineering
Environmental science
Applied and interdisciplinary physics
Microplastics
Hydrography
Oceanography
Earth sciences
Natural environment
Hydrology
Physical oceanography
Systems ecology
Geography
Citations
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