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News Spotlight: Just How Big Is The Ocean Plastic Problem?
Emma Cummings-Krueger, Conservation International Plastics & Pollution
Every year, up to 10 million tons of plastic end up in the world’s oceans — an amount so large it’s hard to visualize. But that’s just what two journalists did. In a report for Al Jazeera, Mohammed Hussein and Marium Ali found that if flattened, ocean plastic today would cover an area roughly the size of Jamaica. In 50 years, plastic waste could grow to an area larger than France.
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