How Much Plastic Is in the Ocean?

The best estimate we have right now is at least five million tons every year. Eric figured it was the garbage patches. So he mapped out the patches, and his collaborators added a map of where sea birds forage. And it was totally surprising, because there were no garbage patches. There was all this plastic out there somewhere, but it wasn't in garbage patches. It wiave dark plastic, dark plastic, like the astronomers have dark matter and dark energy.