The Ocean's Helping Microplastics

Scientists reckon every year eight million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean. Microplastic is a big problem and people are working hard to keep it out of the ocean. Scientists have discovered an amazing way that the ocean is working to help get rid of microplastic itself. It all has to do with something called seagrass. Seagrass is green and flowing like seaweed but no one's mowed it under the sea. As the seagrassing is swayed, they catch microplastics and bundle them into golf ball sized clumps which then wash up on beaches. A special fossil's been discovered and it's getting a lot of people pretty excited. The