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An island of plastic? It doesn't exist!

  • 29 september 2017
  • 20 minuten

Oceanographer and climate scientist (UU) Dr Erik van Sebille talks about the plastic soup. 8 billion kilos of plastic ends up in the ocean every year.

Oceanographer and climate scientist (UU) Dr Erik van Sebille talks about the plastic soup. 8 billion kilos of plastic ends up in the ocean every year. The natural degradation lasts for centuries. The plastic soup is growing, but in a different way than you might think.