Way Off facts · 🌊 The Ocean
How many pieces of plastic are floating in the world's oceans?
171 trillion
pieces
171,000,000,000,000 exactly, give or take
171 trillion — about 21,000 for every person alive. Most are smaller than a grain of rice.SOURCEPLOS ONE, 2023
Scale check: 171 trillion is roughly seconds in 3 million years.
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