Plastic in the Pacific Ocean

‘Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world’s oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean.’

From Chris Jordan’s Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture. Details here.

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