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When Spanish scientist Andres Cozar Cabanas compiled the first ever global map of ocean trash last July, he inadvertently uncovered a mystery. Much of the plastic he expected to find bobbing in the oceans, given a quadrupling of plastic production in recent years, had “disappeared…”
Read Full Article, National Geographic
269,000 Tons of Plastic Pollution Floating in World’s Oceans, Science Daily (12-11-2014)
Sydney Harbour’s Plastic Pollution At Alarming Levels, Scientists Find, Guardian UK (08-30-2014)
Great Lakes Teeming With Tiny Plastic Fibers, ABC News (01-09-2015)
Plastic Pollution: “When The Mermaids Cry: The Great Plastic Tide,” Coastal Care
