Plastic Earth

Nagendra, Harini (2023) Plastic Earth. Deccan Herald.

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We are still recovering from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. An alarming recent paper published in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences estimates that the oceans contain 1-5 million tons of plastic. Anywhere between 82-358 trillion tiny pieces of plastic are on the ocean’s surface, mostly produced after 2005, when the amount of plastic produced in factories across the world began to grow exponentially.

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Nagendra, Harini

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