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RE: A Sea of Garbage - An "Informative" Rant
Plastic counts do tend to run a little higher near shorelines and in the gyres from what I've heard, so that might affect the math a bit.
There was a shortish-lived comic, Great Pacific, about somewhat building a nation on the floating trash in the ocean. Super fictionalized, of course, since the trash is at no point thick enough to walk on.
They do run higher near shorelines due to getting caught in longshore transport and not actually being able to effectively escape... However, near untouched beaches, the count runs lower than the "tourist" beaches, so this is still kind of a low number compared to what one would expect from a busy beach.
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