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    Plastic State of our Ocean

    Researchers believe there are more 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic debris in the ocean. While about 20% are afloat, in transit or trapped in at the five known plastic gyres, more than four billion plastic microfibers per square kilometre are in the deep sea. Be afraid; be very afraid of these scary numbers. Frightening numbers! We dump eight million tonnes of plastic in the ocean every year.

    A recent survey of the Australian coastline documented three-quarters of coastal rubbish is plastic, averaging more than six pieces per metre of coastline. Offshore, densities vary from a few thousand pieces to more than 40,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre.

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