ORIS X BRACENET Aquis Watch 01 733 7730 4137-07 8 24 05PEBOcean plastic statistics make for difficult reading. For example, scientists believe the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP), an area of plastic waste drifting between Hawaii and California, is four and a half times the size of Germany. That figure was calculated by the environmental engineering organization The Ocean Cleanup, which also estimates that 46 per cent of the GPGP is made up of fishing nets that have been lost or discarded. This is