Collecting plastic waste near coasts 'is most effective clean-up method'. Analysis finds that placing plastic collectors near coasts would remove 31% of microplastics, versus 1% if they were all in the ‘Great Pacific Garbage patch’.

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Collecting plastic waste near coasts 'is most effective clean-up method'. Analysis finds that placing plastic collectors near coasts would remove 31% of microplastics, versus 1% if they were all in the ‘Great Pacific Garbage patch’.