A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required
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A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required
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PLoS One
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages e0281596
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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2023-03-09
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10.1371/journal.pone.0281596
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