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In the Galápagos, fighting the rising tide of plastic pollution

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UN Environment

Publication Date
2018-03-14

When the clean-up volunteers in the Galápagos Islands came across a soda can with a brand from Indonesia, they were hardly surprised. For months, they had been cleaning the remote beaches of these iconic islands 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador and removing tonnes of plastic waste, much of it carried to the islands from other corners of the planet.

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https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/galapagos-fighting-rising-tide-plastic-pollution