Is There a Biggest Loss of Plastic in the Ocean?

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Where's all the dark plastic? Hiding. We've lost it. Those garbage patches, which people tend to talk about like their the biggest problem of ocean plastic, they're just the tip of an enormous, expanding iceberg. So what about that missing 99 %? Eric has some hypotheses about where it could be.

How can we solve the problem of ocean plastic if we don’t know where most of the plastic is?

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