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May 9, 2012

Pacific Ocean has 100 times more plastic particles in it than 70s.

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Pacific Ocean has 100 times more plastic particles in it than 70s.
Thousands of miles off the coast of California, millions of tons of plastic make up the so-called "Great Pacific Garbage Patch". A new report estimates that particles of "microplastic"—pieces of plastic smaller than 5 mm in diameter—have increased by more than 100 times since the early 1970s.

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