05 Jan 2023 --- The amount of microplastics collected on ocean floors has tripled in the past 20 years at the same rate of social plastic consumption, according to research by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of the Built Environment of Aalborg University (AAU-BUILD). The study provides the first high-resolution reconstruction of microplastic pollution from sediments obtained in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea by combining a palaeoceanographic approach and state-of-the-art analytical methods for microplastic identification.
