In December, a consortium of 12 research institutions published some of the first numbers on global ocean plastic pollution. By their calculation, almost 300,000 tons of plastic swirl near the surface of our seas today.
The estimate is lower than expected. It doesn't include plastic that has sunk to the seafloor or been eaten by animals, for example. Marcus Eriksen, director of research at the Five Gyres Institute, and his team made a model of ocean plastics' whereabouts and created a zoomable map of what they term 'plastic smog.'
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