A recent study shows that ocean microplatics were overestimated. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-plastic-litter-oceans-overestimated-persist.html https://phys.org

A recent study shows that ocean microplatics were overestimated. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-plastic-litter-oceans-overestimated-persist.html https://phys.org/news/2023-08-plastic-litter-oceans-overesti... Most of the platic is in larger pieces. So it seems probable that focus was misplaced, yeah.