The amount of plastic pollution previously thought to exist around the world may be a dramatic underestimate — because the vast majority of plastic pollution may actually be below the surface. - NBCNewsMACH
Roughly 93% of the debris found, most of it tiny micro-debris, was actually buried below the surface. But because they only dug 3.
The amount of debris buried up to about 4 inches below the surface of the beach is 26 times higher than the amount visible on its surface, the researchers wrote."This suggests global debris surveys, the majority of which are focused solely on surface debris, have drastically underestimated the scale of debris accumulation."
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