For Every Person on Earth, There Are 21,000 Pieces of Plastic in the Ocean

An analysis of global plastic data over the past four decades , publishedin the journal PLOS ONE , found that there ’s now an estimated 170 trillion charge card molecule — more than 2.2 million stacks — swim in the world ’s ocean . That number saw a sharp step-up in the past 15 years , dovetailing , the researchers found , with ineffective global policy to thin plastic waste . If we do n’t act , the amount of credit card that ’s there now could more than double by 2040 . get through through for a panorama of what all that plastic actually reckon like .

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