What if the Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t the ocean’s biggest plastic problem?

Grist
By Matt SimonSep 15, 2019, 6:00 am315 pts
This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Humans unleash mountains of plastic into the sea each year, and that rate is only accelerating as plastic production grows around the world. The confounding bit is that scientists know little about…

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