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[-] sycamore@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to this website (https://www.condorferries.co.uk/plastic-in-the-ocean-statistics) 33 billion pounds of plastic enter the ocean each year.

So in the same timeframe that ocean cleanup extracted 25,000 pounds, 2.5 billion pounds were dumped.

I'm not saying its not a worthwhile exercise, but that's depressing.

[-] jochem@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Ocean cleanup is also working on systems to prevent plastic from leaving rivers and flowing into the oceans.

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