But, but straws?
Maybe straws are more the small pacific trash heap type?
How is this possible given the rivers of plastic flowing out of Asian rivers? Seems like maybe a detectability issue.
My thought too. This is saying that at least 73% of the garbage patch is the fishing industries fault. I’m sure they contribute a lot but that’s a lot a lot. Sounds like someone is trying to shift blame.
I think more of a “coherency” issue – nets and fishing gear catch and tangle and clump and knot whereas something like bottles just bounce off each other – so unless the other plastics have become entangled in the fishing gear they don’t get counted …
also worth noting, National Geographic is now owned by Disney so coverage of certain issues might be a little “adjusted” …
