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Plastic Outweighs Surface Plankton in Central North Pacific Ocean

"Broken, degraded plastic pieces outweigh surface zooplankton in the central North Pacific by a factor of 6-1." - excerpt from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation web page at http://www.algalita.org/pelagic_plastic.html

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