On: 414M pieces of plastic found on remote island group in Indian Ocean

[krilly]

They found 23,227. They estimated a total of 414m. Big difference.

[onetimemanytime → krilly]

did anyone expected them to count one by one 414,000,000 pieces of plastic? I think they established that there's an insane amount of plastic in the oceans and its coming from far away

[overcast → onetimemanytime]

Mostly likely it's coming from nearby in Southeast Asia and China.