{"id":43645,"date":"2015-02-18T10:20:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T15:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=43645"},"modified":"2015-02-18T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T15:20:27","slug":"8-million-metric-tons-plastic-go-oceans-every-year-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/8-million-metric-tons-plastic-go-oceans-every-year-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Million Metric Tons Of Plastic Go Into The Oceans Every Year, Research Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic ends up in the oceans every year, according to new research from the University of Georgia and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.<\/p>\n

To be exact, the research found that between 4.8 and 12.7 million metric tons of plastic found its way into the ocean in 2010, as a result of actions taken by people living within 50 kilometers of the coastline. So, in all reality, the figure could bpvery easily be higher than 8 million metric tons a year.<\/p>\n

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The research also provided some other interesting figures, including: the “192 countries with a coast bordering the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, Mediterranean and Black seas produced a total of 2.5 billion metric tons of solid waste” in 2010. Of those 2.5 billion metric tons, 275 million metric tons was plastic. That’s an incredible amount of plastic being produced and discarded every year — and those are just the figures for coastal countries.<\/p>\n