Quarter-Million Tons of Plastic Plague Oceans
Dec 10, 2014•3 min
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Episode description
Based on trawling samples and visual observations of plastic debris, computer models calculate that some 5.25 trillion particles of plastic—about 269,000 tons—may litter the world's oceans. Christopher Intagliata reports
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