A seventy-nine thousand ton plastic garbage patch floating in the Pacific Ocean now occupies "an area three times the size of France," according to an article printed in The Washington Post and reprinted in the Tampa Bay Times.
Surveyors using 18 boats and two planes found that "(t)he amount of plastic found in this area...in 'increasing exponentially'."
While the garbage patch has been described before, the latest survey estimates the plastic contained in the patch has a 4 to 16 times larger mass than previously thought.
To read the article in The Washington Post, click here. Click here to read it in the Tampa Bay Times.
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