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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts) Thu Mar 22, 2018, 07:02 PM Mar 2018

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Plastic within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is increasing exponentially, scientists find

Seventy nine thousand tons of plastic debris, in the form of 1.8 trillion pieces, now occupy an area three times the size of France in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, a scientific team reported on Thursday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/plastic-within-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-is-%e2%80%98increasing-exponentially%e2%80%99-scientists-find/ar-BBKyPvA?ocid=spartanntp

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Plastic within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is increasing exponentially, scientists find (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Mar 2018 OP

Saw this in the Guardian earlier malaise Mar 2018 #1

malaise

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1. Saw this in the Guardian earlier

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2018, 07:03 PM

Mar 2018

We had the original Nature article here on DU some time ago.
It's shocking.

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