Discard Studies shares Max Liboiron’s engrossing, and depressing, account of the ocean’s toxic soup of plastics. A few quotes: “The best conservative estimate we have is that there are 315 billion pounds of plastic in the ocean. For comparison, The Gulf Spill spewed roughly 2.5 million pounds of oil per day at its peak. That […]
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Posted in Eco-culture, tagged crisis, environment, plastic planet, toxic planet on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
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