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Good job, humans: The oceans now contain 5 trillion pieces of floating plastic
A major new study of the world's oceans has reached a shocking conclusion: Thanks to humans, there are now over 5 trillion pieces of plastic, weighing more than 250,000 tons, floating in water around the world. With a global population of about 7.2 billion, that's nearly 700 pieces per person.
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Im pretty sure 99.9% of that waste was caused by large corporations dumping shit into the oceans.