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A 1.7 million square kilometer, 10 meter thick ( 17,600,000,000 m^3 by my count) soup of floating plastic.

uub: the fact this all pools together will make it easier to clean up eventually 3 years ago

gave props 3 years ago

missmolly324: More people need to know about this... 3 years ago

chris: here's a question: what is the rate of growth of this patch over time? 3 years ago

shiftyp: I think the answer to that question is still unknown. Here's a site with more info though.

3 years ago

shiftyp: And here is TED presentation with a nice map tracing bottle cap's journey to the patch.

3 years ago