BendiNewsTest: Great Pacific Garbage Patch is even bigger than we thought, says cleanup inventor

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Monday, August 24, 2015

Great Pacific Garbage Patch is even bigger than we thought, says cleanup inventor

Plastic trash in the ocean is a huge problem – a ‘millions of tons’ type problem. New evidence suggests that in the San Francisco Bay area alone, there will soon be a lot more plastic floating in the water than previously known. The latest update comes from a fleet of scientists and volunteer helpers who spent the last month tooling around on 30 boats in the Bay to measure and map the waves of plastic trash making their way across the Pacific tides toward the West coast. They concentrated on an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is estimated to be twice the size of Texas.