GROSS: In The Time It Takes You To Look At This Photo, Its Contents Will Have Doubled

And in the time it takes you to read this sentence, its contents will have tripled. What is this, you ask? It’s the amount of garbage humankind puts into the oceans every FIFTEEN SECONDS. That’s disgusting. People do know that the whole “recycling” thing only works if they actually, you know, recycle… Right?

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Rebecca Eisenberg

Jul 27, 2012

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