Factoid/2018/03/26
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch is Bigger than Expected
- The Great Pacific Garbage Patch "measures 1.6 million square kilometers, three times the size of continental France. Accumulated in this area are 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing 80.000 metric tons, the equivalent of 500 Jumbo Jets. These figures are four to sixteen times higher than previous estimates. 92% of the mass is represented by larger objects; while only 8% of the mass is contained in microplastics, defined as pieces smaller than 5 mm in size." - Excerpt from The Ocean Cleanup.
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