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The accumulation of marine litter in the world’s oceans over the past decades has risen. Plastic is ubiquitous, cheap to produce and extremely durable. Every piece of plastic ever produced still exists, therefore much of it has ended up, in the oceans. Worryingly, plastic breaks up over time into smaller and smaller pieces known as microplastics, which end up in wastewater, freshwater, and marine environments and are ingested by marine life such as plankton and shellfish,...