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When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

The new study also identifies the major sources of plastic debris and names the top 20 countries generating the greatest amount of ocean-bound trash. China is first. The United States is 20th.

The largest, the Pacific Garbage Patch, spans 1.6 million sq km—twice the size of Borneo. The others are found in the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South Pacific.

The Ocean Cleanup aims to be a temporary effort, with the ambition to reduce floating ocean plastic pollution by 90% by 2040. We will cease to exist once our mission of clean oceans has been achieved.

But they’re aiming to catch something else: plastic. The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) is the world’s largest organization working to remove floating plastic from the ocean.