26.08.2015 - 02:13 [ Reuters ]

Researchers sample enormous oceanic trash vortex ahead of clean-up proposal

(24.August) „We did three types of surveys in 80 locations, and now we are working on completing an up-to-date estimate of the size of the patch, making a chart of hot spots and publishing our findings by mid-2016,“ Reisser said.
„There were hundreds of times more plastics in these areas than there were organisms,“ she added.