Plastic Outnumbers Fish Seven To One

Plastic Outnumbers Fish Seven To One

Plastic is building up in the areas of the ocean where fish feed and grow, according to research. A study found bits of plastic outnumber baby fish by seven to one in nursery waters off Hawaii. It appears that the same ocean processes that concentrate prey for juvenile fish also accumulate floating plastics. There is growing evidence that plastic is...
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Visualizing Global Plastic Production, Broken Down

Visualizing Global Plastic Production, Broken Down

Global plastic consumption is gargantuan. It needs to be discussed in terms of hundreds of years and billions of tons. But to most, those digits don't mean anything. They're incomprehensibly greater than any figures we use day-to-day. We can't help but struggle to understand the scale of the situation. Take, for example, this mind-boggling statistic (pdf): The total amount of plastic ever created is...
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