Troubling news for ocean playgrounds. According to the L.A. Times, the world’s biggest collection of floating trash—The Great Pacific Garbage Patch—is actually 16 times larger than previously estimated.
The patch, which is adrift between Hawaii and California, was often compared to the size of Texas. But as it turns out, that estimate was a bit off, and now scientists are saying the trash heap is actually three times of the size of France. Yikes.
A three-year study released on Thursday, found that not only is the mass roughly comprised of 79,000 metric tons of plastic but it’s still growing. Even more troubling, the growth has been at an exponential rate. The majority of the trash consists of fishing nets—46 percent of it—and much of the rest is related gear, per Nat Geo News.
The silver lining is that an organization known as the Ocean Clean Up is already seeking to find a solution. The team of scientists, in conjunction with six universities and an aerial sensor company, started by first understanding the magnitude of the situation.
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“To be able to solve a problem, we believe it is essential to first understand it. These results provide us with key data to develop and test our cleanup technology, but it also underlines the urgency of dealing with the plastic pollution problem,” said Boyan Slat founder and co-author of the study in a statement.
“Since the results indicate that the amount of hazardous microplastics is set to increase more than tenfold if left to fragment, the time to start is now.”
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