A Major Cleanup Is In Order

More plastic than plankton: Our oceans are covered in patches of garbage as big as a continent

Metro World News in Paris

At the heart of the oceans, areas as big as France, maybe more, are covered in garbage. The most famous of these is the Great Garbage Patch, discovered in the late 1990s in the North Pacific Ocean between the U.S.A. and Asia. But it seems that another seven similar patches may exist, according to Seattle oceanographer Curtis Eb­bes­meyer, one of the first scientists to take interest in the strange routes of plastic trash in the sea.

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