East Garbage Patch News Today

Published on: Sunday, December 20, 2020 By: Kan Yaw Chong Text Size: Common sight these days – plastic litter beaches everywhere. A RAPID and extreme increase in wild plastic wastes from mass production since the 1960s looks set to break the ocean systems unless it is stopped in its track, warned a handful of unsung environmental engineers.   So far, 8.3 billion metric tonnes had been churned out, most of it for single-use which ended up as wild trash.   But who cares.  It is this vacuum ...