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Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Bigger and Mostly Made of Fishing Gear

National Geographic News 2018

It’s not all bottles and straws—the patch is mostly abandoned fishing gear.

New analysis reveals the region contains as much as sixteen times more plastic than previously estimated, with pollution levels increasing exponentially...

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