For Every Person on Earth, There Are 21,000 Pieces of Plastic in the Ocean
An analysis of global plastic data over the past four decades, published in the journal PLOS ONE, found that there's now an estimated 170 trillion plastic particles-more than 2.2 million tons-floating in the world's oceans. That number saw a sharp increase in the past 15 years, dovetailing, the researchers found, with...