SAN FRANCISCO—(ENEWSPF)–December 12, 2014. A new study says the world’s ocean is awash in 5 trillion pieces of plastic — from tiny beads and toys to shopping bags and bottles — weighing more than 250,000 tons. One of the researchers said it’s the equivalent of two-liter plastic bottles stacked end-to-end in a column that stretches to the moon and back twice.
The study, published in PLOS One, is one of the largest attempts to date…
