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