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More plastic pollution is swirling in the deep ocean than in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a new study has found Plastic Pollution

More plastic pollution is swirling in the deep ocean than in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a new study has found

On average, 8.8 million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. The maximum amount could be closer to 14 million tons — about the weight of 2 million elephants. Most plastics take hundreds of years to break down. And even then, they just splinter into…
bubmag
June 6, 2019