Academia confirms almost all coral reefs have plastic waste present

A study by a team of researchers from the California Academy of Sciences, Nekton and the universities of São Paulo, Oxford and Exeter has found that large pieces of plastic waste is now present in almost all coral reefs across the world.

The study, which was published in the journal Nature, surveyed 84 shallow and deep reefs at 25 locations across the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian ocean for human-made debris that is more than 5 cm in size.