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Plastic pollution may be even more detrimental to ocean life than we once thought. Every year, 14 million tons of plastic end up in our oceans, making up 80 percent of all marine debris, the ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean ...