Dr Thompson's findings estimate there are 300,000 items of plastic per sq km of sea surface. He's taken samples from all over the world. This is so depressing:
Plastics 'poisoning world's seas'
Dec. 7. 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6218698.stm
By Maggie Ayre, BBC, UK
Microscopic particles of plastic could be poisoning the oceans, according to a British team of researchers. They report that small plastic pellets called "mermaids' tears", which are the result of industry and domestic waste, have spread across the world's seas...
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