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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Vishwam Sankaran

Groundbreaking study finds huge amount of litter at deepest point in Mediterranean Sea

A groundbreaking study has found one of the highest concentrations of deep-sea litter ever detected at the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea.

Researchers discovered plastic, glass, metal and paper waste at the bottom of the Calypso Deep, a 5,112m depression in the Ionian Sea about 60km west of Greece’s Peloponnese coast.

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