Study reveals that the Pacific Garbage Patch much heftier than thought — and it’s growing

Mongabay
Mar 26, 2018, 9:37 am149 pts
The great mass of castaway plastic collecting in the northern Pacific Ocean is much larger than past estimates, and it’s growing, according to a new study. As a species, we use and discard millions of tons of plastic each year, and a lot of it ends up in the ocean, where researchers estimate that it kills or…

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