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Fishing nets account for 46 percent of the trash within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with the majority of the rest composed of other fishing industry gear (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago by pizzaiolo to c/vegan

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[–] cerement 4 points 1 year ago

I think more of a “coherency” issue – nets and fishing gear catch and tangle and clump and knot whereas something like bottles just bounce off each other – so unless the other plastics have become entangled in the fishing gear they don’t get counted …

also worth noting, National Geographic is now owned by Disney so coverage of certain issues might be a little “adjusted” …

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