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50NT 40N 2 cm si 30N From Science 3 September 2010: Vol. 329 no. 5986 pp. 1165-1188. Reprinted with permission from AAAS. 20N plastic pieces per km2 -100,000 -50,000 25,000 15,000 +10,000 5,000 +2.500 10N 90W 80W 70W 60W 50W Plastic pieces in the North Atlantic gyre. The estimated total amount of plastic in the area shown (most of which consists of particles about 1 millimeter6 of an inch in size) is 1,100 metric tons (1,210 tons). Scripps Institution of Oceanography UC San Diego b A clump of plastic debris near the center of the North Pacific gyre. Figure 9.16 Waste plastic accumulates at the centers of gyres