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5 Trillion Pieces of Ocean Trash Found, But Fewer Particles Than Expected

2014-12-12 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: A new study on the amount of plastic pollution floating around the world's oceans found a lot of garbage but fewer small particles than researchers expected, raising new questions about how litter is interacting with the environment. Scientists from the nonprofit advocacy group 5 Gyres published their findings this week in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE. The researchers collected plastic from parts of the ocean with nets and then used computer models to estimate the extent of the garbage problem...

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