Photo: Environmental Images/REX USA. Millions of tons of plastic that should be floating around in the world's oceans are unaccounted for -- and some of this plastic may end up on your plate. A team of 400 researchers recently spent nine months trawling through 313 sites in the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans, fishing for plastic. They gathered data and used it to extrapolate the total amount of plastic trash occupying our oceans across the globe: 40,000 tons overall, as the researchers rev...
Photo: Environmental Images/REX USA. Millions of tons of plastic that should be floating around in the world's oceans are unaccounted for -- and some of this plastic may end up on your plate. A team of 400 researchers recently spent nine months trawling through 313 sites in the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans, fishing for plastic. They gathered data and used it to extrapolate the total amount of plastic trash occupying our oceans across the globe: 40,000 tons overall, as the researchers rev...
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