A 60-year study on plankton has revealed the dark truth about the history of ocean plastic waste. The study shows how plastics have been polluting our oceans since at least the 1950s and that the problem has steadily gotten worse in the six decades since. The first documented case of ocean plastic waste was some fishing twine discovered in the 1950s. The next mention is a carrier bag in 1965. From there, the data shows that plastic waste significantly increased between 1970 and the early 2000s,...
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/ocean-plastic-waste-has-been-a-problem-since-the-1950s-reveals-60-year-plankton-study
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