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The amount of plastic we dump into the ocean annually could stretch halfway to Mars. Really.
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The amount of plastic we dump into the ocean annually could stretch halfway to Mars. Really.
Thanks to a study published today in the journal Science, we finally have an estimate. Are you sitting down? Humans release between 5.3 million and 14 million tons of plastic into the ocean annually. Here’s some perspective on that hard-to-fathom number. Nine million tons of plastic is the equivalent of 136 billion plastic milk jugs. Stack them up and they’d reach more than halfway to Mars. (OK, OK—only when its orbit is at its closest to earth, nerd.) Nine million tons is also the equivalent of piling five grocery bags full of plastic on every foot of coastline in the world.
know what is used to make plastic?