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Gaelle Gourmelon'
Problematic Plastic
Gaelle Gourmelon
Category:
World Watcher
Published:
July 2018
Approximately 10,000,000-20,000,000 tons of plastic end up in the oceans each year. An estimated 5.25 trillion plastic particles are floating in the word's oceans, resulting in $13,000,000,000 a year in losses from damage to marine ecosystems.