author's comments: (Donovan Hohn,
who decided to track down 28,800 missing bath toys lost at sea. What he found:)
“When I set out following these toys, I didn’t expect it to turn into an
environmental story but I very quickly learned … that unlike the flotsam
of ages past, the flotsam of today — much of it plastic — persists. It lasts
visibly for decades and chemically for centuries because it doesn’t biodegrade.”
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