From TFA: > This figure is almost double the higher end of the estimates from 2015 and five times more than the lowest estimates in the earlier predictions. >

From TFA: > This figure is almost double the higher end of the estimates from 2015 and five times more than the lowest estimates in the earlier predictions. > The data included American waste exports that were not accounted for in their previous studies. > Recent developments have shown that much of the plastic waste that is exported does not go through recycling systems and ends up in the oceans.