'Great Pacific garbage patch' sprawling with far more debris than thought
by Oliver Milman in New York from Environment | The Guardian on (#3JVEQ)
The patch of detritus is more than twice the size of France and is up to 16 times larger than previously estimated
An enormous area of rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean is teeming with far more debris than previously thought, heightening alarm that the world's oceans are being increasingly choked by trillions of pieces of plastic.
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