{"id":235608,"date":"2025-10-31T08:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235608\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:49:12","slug":"plastic-pollution-spends-a-century-on-ocean-surface-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235608\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic pollution spends a century on ocean surface, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water&#8217;s surface for more than a century, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists from HR Wallingford, in Oxfordshire, and Queen Mary University created a model to simulate the breakdown of plastic and how long it takes to end up in the deep sea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They found that existing pollution would still float on the surface for more than 100 years, even if no more floating plastic was dumped in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those behind the study said the research offered &#8220;critical insights&#8221; into &#8220;the challenges of removing plastic from marine environments&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plastic pollution in the ocean could remain on the water&#8217;s surface for more than a century, a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-235608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}