A six-year study in Ecuador found plastic pollution from beaches to 3,900 meters beneath the Pacific, with fishing responsible for more than half of shoreline debris and researchers documenting plastic for the first time in the abyssal depths of the eastern equatorial Pacific.
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Frontiers | Plastic debris in the Ecuadorian shoreline, coastal and deep-water zones of the eastern Pacific margin
Although 28 studies worldwide have documented plastic debris on the deep-sea floor, only one has addressed the eastern Pacific margin. Equally uncommon are l...