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04/02/2018 / By Edsel Cook

No longer Texas-sized, trash islands in our oceans are now the size of Mexico – and growing at an alarming rate

The biggest of the trash islands in the oceans have gone from the size of Texas to bigger than Mexico. And their growth shows no sign of abatement due to the increasing amount of plastic use and waste around the world, warned a Pacific Standard article. Individual islands are formed out of seaweed, styrofoam, and plastic trash […]

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