Seagrass in coastal areas act as a natural sieve, collecting plastic into natural bundles of seagrass fiber called ‘Neptune Balls,’ according to research published in Scientific Reports. The report states that seagrass in the Mediterranean alone may collect almost 900 million plastic items per year. “We show that plastic debris in the seafloor can be trapped in seagrass remains, eventually leaving the marine environment through beaching,” Anna Sanchez-Vidal, lead author and a marine biologist at the University of Barcelona, told AFP. This “represents a continuous purge of plastic d...