>"There could beĀ more than 200 million tons of minuscule plastic fragments floatingĀ across and beneath the entireĀ Atlantic Ocean, and thatās just for three of the most littered plastics. In a major breakthrough, scientistsĀ from the U.K.āsĀ National Oceanography CentreĀ (NOC) found 12ā21 million tons of polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene suspended in the topĀ 200 meters (m)Ā of the Atlantic. Lead author [ā¦]"