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"As it turns out, of the 79,000 metric tons of #plastic in the [great pacific garbage] patch, most of it is abandoned #fishing gear—not plastic bottles or packaging drawing headlines today."
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-garbage-patch-plastics-environment/
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I like to forage around streams sometimes and I can say with certainty that that aligns with what I see. Fisherman are litter bugs and some of the worst of the worst litter bugs at that.
@pinkprius ah well that's fine then. (but yeah, getting the odd detail right would be a welcome journalism practice.)