What a load of garbage, quite literally. That’s what’s floating around in our oceans, loads and loads of plastic garbage. The first step to solving a problem is know what it is though, and so researchers have set out to quantify how much floating plastics we have and what kinds of plastics it is.

Reference:

Lebreton, L. et al. "Evidence That The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Rapidly Accumulating Plastic". Scientific Reports, vol 8, no. 1, 2018. Springer Nature, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-22939-w.

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