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Trash talk: 269,000 tons of plastic litter choke world's oceans

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Reuters

Publication Date
2014-12-11

(Reuters) - There are plastic shopping bags, bottles, toys, action figures, bottle caps, pacifiers, tooth brushes, boots, buckets, deodorant roller balls, umbrella handles, fishing gear, toilet seats and so much more. Plastic pollution is pervasive in Earth's oceans.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/10/us-science-plastic-idUSKBN0JO24W20141210