How many particles have been found?
Regularly updated tables showing how many particles have been found are published on this website. Over 1400 particles have been identified and removed to date – those detected on the beaches have been removed along with those detected on the seabed by divers. Particles on the seabed have also been detected by remotely operated vehicles but these machines did not have a retrieval capability until December 2007 and therefore some particles were detected but not recovered from the offshore environment.
