Archived Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) samples show an increasing trend of microfibers since the 1960s [ 12 ] and an increasing trend of macroplastic entanglement since the late 1950s [ 13 ].
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A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world's oceans-Urgent solutions required.
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For the period with extensive sample coverage (1990–2015), there is substantial variability until 2004, which could be interpreted as stagnation or a decreasing trend; however, from 2005 onward, there is a consistent and rapid increase in plastic abundance ( Fig 3 ).
Results After accounting for wind, site selection, and biases due to under-sampling, a significant trend was observed with ocean plastic through time ( Fig 3 ).