Nature World: Researchers say that plastic islands in oceans have disappeared.
Millions of tons of plastic items end up in oceans each day. For over a decade, scientists have assumed that most of the plastic ends up as "plastic islands" that float on oceanic surface. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one such example of plastic debris accumulating on the surface of the ocean.
However, researchers at the University of Western Australia's Oceans Institute now said that the plastic in the ocean is disappearing...