The ocean is home to more than 200,000 known species and as many as 2 million that we have yet to discover. And, on a dire note, it is also home to 24.4 trillion pieces of microplastics. In 2022, researchers spotlighted how bad marine microplastic pollution is getting: The total amount of microplastics deposited on the bottom of oceans has tripled in the past two decades.
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