There are a Million Times More Microplastics Than We Thought

L&O Letters

This study came out in November 2019, and it made headlines because we found that when the smallest microplastics were measured, were a million times more microplastics than originally thought. We used a new method to count the smallest microplastics that had been under-counted by previous studies.

Here are a few articles written about the piece, and a non-article: the story trended on Reddit!

The ocean has a million times more microplastics than we thought - Fast Company

There’s literally a million times more microplastic in our oceans than we realized - Gizmodo

Microplastics a million times more abundant than previously thought, Scripps study suggests - Scripps Oceanography press release

Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought - NSF Stories

The ocean is teeming with microplastics - a million times more than we thought, suggests new research - World Economic Forum

Microplastics a million times more abundant than we thought - Reddit, 4500 interactions, 292 comments

There may be a million times more plastics in the ocean than previously estimated - IFL Science

There may be almost a million times more microplastics in the oceans than we thought - Newsweek