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Volume of plastic waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 2015, by source (in metric tons)

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Sources

Expert(s) (Lebreton et al, 2018); OWID

Release date

September 2018

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2015

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Global volume of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by material 2015

Published by ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Research Department, Jan 28, 2019
This statistic displays the plastic waste mass in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGB) in 2015, broken down by source. In that year, some * metric tons of the plastic waste in the GPGB was derived from plastic lines, ropes, and fishing nets.
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