By AKEMI KANDA/ Staff Writer
April 19, 2021 at 07:00 JST
A plastic shopping bag spotted on the seabed more than 5,800 meters deep off the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture in September 2019. (Provided by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
Plastic waste has accumulated at a final destination nearly 6 kilometers deep on the seabed off the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture, scientists have discovered. [Read More]
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