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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Even Worse Than We Feared

A young inventor has a cleanup plan -- but he has to understand the enormity first.

The first aerial survey of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch shows that the amount of debris swirling in the North Pacific has been “heavily underestimated.”  A solution to the planet’s decades-long addiction to plastic cannot come soon enough. A report in January found that if we continue our current ways, the world’s oceans would contain more plastic than fish by 2050.