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Considering the hazard that plastic waste poses on the environment, marine life, and on humans, remote-sensing techniques could provide timely information on their detection and dynamics. The remote sensing of marine plastic is a relatively new field and research into the capabilities of radar for detecting and monitoring marine plastic pollution is generally limited, with several interactions and mechanisms being largely unknown. Here, we exploit the use of a C- and X-band radar to understand the capabilities of monitoring marine plastics. Our results show that backscattering differences in the C- and X-band between the reference water (called here as \u201cclean\u201d) and the test water filled with plastic can be detected in some conditions (based on statistical analysis). Overall, the results indicate that the X-band frequency performs significantly better than the C-band frequency, with X-band detecting significant differences in backscattering in 48\/68 test cases compared with C-band detecting differences in 20\/67 test cases. We also find that the difference in backscattering is dependent on the size and shape of the plastic object, as well as the wave conditions which the plastic is moving on. 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