Don’t expect the greens’ 1,600% mistake on ocean plastic to get them to change course

That is, until it isn’t.
The latest backtrack? Turns out there’s less plastic in the oceans than claimed. Far less.
Per a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience, just 500,000 metric tons of plastic end up in the world’s oceans each year, not the 8 million tons previously bewailed.
That’s an overestimation of 1,600
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