• Question: How much plastic do you think is in the ocean?

    Asked by SciMerlz to Imogen on 10 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Imogen Napper

      Imogen Napper answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Huge amounts!!

      Unfortunately its is everywhere 🙁

      It is predicted that 8 MILLION tiny plastic particles are entering the ocean each day!!!

      It is also predicted that 15% to 40% of that littered or dumped plastic enters the ocean each year. Adding together all 192 countries in the world by the ocean, about 4 million to 12 million metric tons of plastic washed offshore in 2010 alone.

      A small car roughly weighs about a ton, so imagine all 12 million tons of plastic going into sea every year!

      How scary is that!!

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