Plastic pollution is widespread across the Amazon Rainforest’s rivers, plants and animals, according to a recent study.

Previous research suggests up to 10% of total plastics in the ocean arrive there via the vast network of waterways that’s the Amazon Basin. To understand how and where plastic pollution is present within the basin itself, researchers looked at 52 field studies dating back to 2000 that reported on plastic within the biome across all nine Amazonian countries.

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