... 's no reason why a six-pack ring or a peanut butter jar should be made to last for 400 years. The fact that one piece of plastic caught in a current on the coast, travels through currents for 6 years until it gets to what is now the location of the garbage patch, is saying that this is has been an ongoing problem that is ... international manufacturing of plastic, which was five million tons in the 1950s, is expected to hit 260 million tons this year (Grant, Richard). A soup of plastic litter drifts off the coast of California, proof of our dependence on plastic and the failure to dispos...

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