Jenna Jambeck, associate professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia, is internationally recognized for her research on plastic waste in the ocean and for the Marine Debris Tracker app she co-created. Photo: University of Georgia

We’re Drowning In Plastic Trash. Jenna Jambeck Wants To Save Us

This story originally aired on NPR on July 24, 2018

When a huge floating gyre of plastic waste was discovered in the Pacific in the late 1980s, people were shocked. When whales died and washed ashore with stomachs full of plastic, people were horrified. When photographs of beaches under knee-deep carpets of plastic trash were published, people were disgusted.

Though some of it came from ships, most, presumably, was from land. But how much was coming from where?

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