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Eight Million Tons of Plastic Dumped in Ocean Every Year

2015-02-12 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Scientists have come up with a new way to measure ocean trash-and the numbers are even worse than thought. In 2010, eight million tons of plastic trash ended up in the ocean from coastal countries-far more than the total that has been measured floating on the surface in the ocean's "garbage patches." That's the bad news. The even worse news is that the tonnage is on target to increase tenfold in the next decade unless the world finds a way to improve how garbage is collected and managed. The...

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