Plastic marine debris-Environmental aspects in the news

Cornstarch sanitary pads cheap enough to avoid tons of ocean plastics, study shows

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Study links ingested ocean plastics to hormone disruption in northern fulmars

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I live on a small Hebridean island. Why is there so much plastic on our beach?

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Core samples from Greenland's seabed provide first historical overview of plastic pollution

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'Race against time' to clear plastic pellets from beaches after North Sea collision

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Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer's, study shows

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Robots and bubble barriers: How Venice and Portugal are tackling ocean plastic

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Scientists in Hawaii are training 'hungry' marine fungi to eat ocean plastics

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How scientists plan to prevent plastic pollution in the ocean

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Fishing for plastics: start-up turns Thai ocean's plastics into new products

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Sea creatures eating plastic and turning into bigger threat

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First-of-its-kind study uses remote sensing to monitor plastic debris in rivers and lakes

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A first step towards integrating marine plastics into urban recycling

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Greenpeace boards tanker in South Korea to protest plastic pollution

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These countries produce the most plastic pollution in our oceans - and they're not the ones you might have guessed

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7-year study reveals plastic fragments from all over the globe are rising rapidly in the North Pacific Garbage Patch

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Fishkill at Dorekere Lake, residents blame plastic pollution

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Newfoundland beach blobs are plastic pollution, but source remains unknown: scientist

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Satellites can now spot plastic trash on Earth's beaches from space (photo)

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