It’s The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Charlie Brown and it’s worse than scientists thought

Researchers at The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit dedicated to ridding our seas of trash, today published the results of a three-year study to determine the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The largest accumulation zone of ocean garbage on the planet, it turns out, is much worse than anyone thought. The vast majority of the trash is microplastics derived from deteriorated pieces of larger plastic debris or health and beauty products that contain “micro beads.”  But the bulk of the GPGP’s mass comes from fishing nets and pieces of debris over 5cm. This has made determining its size difficult…

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