Large, buoyant plastic items degrade over decades, shedding microplastics as they go. These tiny fragments may eventually ...

Floating ocean plastics can take more than 100 years to disappear, breaking into tiny fragments that slowly sink to the seafloor.

Scientists predict it could take more than 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface, according to new study ...

Published today in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, the study is the third and ...

The study reveals that ocean plastics will persist for over a century, emphasizing the critical need for improved waste management and pollution reduction.