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- According to a report published on Wednesday in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, "[p]lastics of all sizes were found in all ocean regions."
- Nearly 270,000 tons of plastic are floating in the world's oceans....
- [A]t least 5.25 trillion plastic pieces... enough to fill more than 38,500 garbage trucks, the Associated Press reported.
This file 2008 photo provided by NOAA Pacific Islands
Fisheries Science Center shows debris in Hanauma Bay, Hawaii.
Juvenile Herring Gull with plastic rubbish in its beak, Newquay, Cornwall, England
A
small island formed by the accumulation of trash is pictured in Tanjung Burung,
on the coast of Indonesia's Banten province June 5, 2013.
Source:
Rheana
Murray, "Startling Images of the Tons of Trash in the
World's Oceans." Dec
11, 2014
http://abcnews.go.com/International/startling-images-tons-trash-worlds-oceans/story?id=27531402
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