I was reading Time Magazine’s “Special Environment Issue” and came across this depressing statistic:
46,000.
That is the estimated number of floating plastic pieces per square mile of ocean, according to a 2006 U.N. study.
Per square mile?!!
I won’t even get into the detrimental effect this has on our marine life. I think this picture speaks for itself. [Source]
WOW! I had no clue it was any where near that number. That’s scary. If that was based on a 2006 study, I wonder what it is estimated today?
Wow, that picture of the turtle is seriously disturbing. I saw a short video on the plastic floating around the ocean on a website called ZapRoot. http://www.viropop.com/zaproot/episode/ZPR_20080319
It’s informative, sad, but funny at the same time. Weird, but true.