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  2. Plastic pollution - Wikipedia

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    Plastic pollution has also greatly negatively affected our environment. "The pollution is significant and widespread, with plastic debris found on even the most remote coastal areas and in every marine habitat". [77] This information tells us about how much of a consequential change plastic pollution has made on the ocean and even the coasts.

  3. Why is a global treaty on plastic pollution dividing the world?

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    What on earth to do about all the plastic polluting the oceans, the food supply, even our bodies?. That is the question that the delegates from 175 countries are trying to answer this week in ...

  4. Earth Day: How one grocery shopper takes steps to avoid ... - AOL

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    The global theme for Earth Day on Monday is planet vs. plastic. Plastic production continues to ramp up globally and is projected to triple by 2050 if nothing changes. Most of it is made from ...

  5. Scenic loch becomes magnet for Scotland's plastic waste - AOL

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    Campaigners say the only solution is to stop the waste entering the water in the first place - and that the introduction of a deposit return scheme for bottles and cans would play a major role in ...

  6. Marine plastic pollution - Wikipedia

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    Marine plastic pollution is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material.

  7. Human impact on marine life - Wikipedia

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    Plastic pollution in the ocean is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material. Marine debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean.

  8. Marine pollution - Wikipedia

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    Plastic pollution in the ocean is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material. Marine debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean.

  9. As global plastic production grows, so does the concentration ...

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    Polyethylene — a plastic polymer used to make things such as plastic bags, milk jugs, shampoo bottles, etc. — was the most common microplastic found in the brain.