{"id": 1206375, "name": "Accumulated ocean plastic: Microplastics (<0.5cm)", "unit": "tonnes", "description": "Mass of accumulated degraded microplastics (<0.5cm) in the world's oceans under three projected emissions scenarios.", "createdAt": "2026-03-05T10:16:22.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-03-05T10:16:22.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1950-2050", "datasetId": 7433, "shortUnit": "t", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "accumulated_ocean_plastic__microplastics__lt_0_5cm", "catalogPath": "grapher/plastic_pollution/2019/missing_plastic_budget__lebreton_et_al__2019/missing_plastic_budget__lebreton_et_al__2019#accumulated_ocean_plastic__microplastics__lt_0_5cm", "type": "int", "datasetName": "Missing plastic budget (Lebreton et al. 2019)", "datasetVersion": "2019", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Microplastics (<0.5cm)", "unit": "tonnes", "shortUnit": "t", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 1, "presentation": {}, "source": {"id": 31136, "name": "Missing plastic budget (Lebreton et al. 2019)", "dataPublishedBy": "Lebreton et al. (2019). A global mass budget for positively buoyant macroplastic debris in the ocean. Nature Scientific Reports.", "dataPublisherSource": "", "link": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49413-5", "retrievedDate": "2019-09-13", "additionalInfo": "Data describes modelled and projected ocean plastic under three 'plastic emissions' scenarios.\n\nGiven is the modelled global accumulation of buoyant macroplastics (>0.5 cm) in the ocean. And the accumulation of microplastics (<0.5 cm), which is degraded plastic material from the ocean surface layer.\n\nThis is given under three scenarios:\n(1) Emissions of plastic to the world's oceans stopped by 2020;\n(2) Emissions stagnated at 2020 levels;\n(3) Increasing emissions of plastic until 2050 in line with the average growth rate of global plastic production from 2005-2015."}, "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1950}, {"id": 1951}, {"id": 1952}, {"id": 1953}, {"id": 1954}, {"id": 1955}, {"id": 1956}, {"id": 1957}, {"id": 1958}, {"id": 1959}, {"id": 1960}, {"id": 1961}, {"id": 1962}, {"id": 1963}, {"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}, {"id": 2025}, {"id": 2026}, {"id": 2027}, {"id": 2028}, {"id": 2029}, {"id": 2030}, {"id": 2031}, {"id": 2032}, {"id": 2033}, {"id": 2034}, {"id": 2035}, {"id": 2036}, {"id": 2037}, {"id": 2038}, {"id": 2039}, {"id": 2040}, {"id": 2041}, {"id": 2042}, {"id": 2043}, {"id": 2044}, {"id": 2045}, {"id": 2046}, {"id": 2047}, {"id": 2048}, {"id": 2049}, {"id": 2050}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 86295, "name": "Emissions growth to 2050", "code": null}, {"id": 86296, "name": "Emissions level to 2020", "code": null}, {"id": 86297, "name": "Emissions stop in 2020", "code": null}]}}, "origins": []}