The challenge of cleaning up plastic from the world’s oceans is almost too big to contemplate. As has been reported widely, litter has accumulated in five giant ocean patches. The largest, the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is located between Hawaii and California and is said to cover an area 10 percent bigger than the entire country of France.
Alarm Grows Over World’s Plastic Refuse
The challenge of cleaning up plastic from the world’s oceans is almost too big to contemplate. As has been reported widely, litter has accumulated in five giant ocean patches. The largest, the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is located between Hawaii and California and is said to cover an area 10 percent bigger than the entire country of France.
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