Infographic: Plastic Waste Inputs from Land into the Ocean in 2010 (IMAGE)
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The 192 countries with a coast bordering the Atlanta, Pacific and Indian oceans, Mediterranean and Black seas produced a total of 2.5 billion metric tons of solid waste. Of that, 275 million metric tons was plastic, and an estimated 8 million metric tons of mismanaged plastic waste entered the ocean in 2010.
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Lindsay Robinson/University of Georgia
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