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182 Pounds of Trash Per Beach Mile

"The 378,000 volunteers on average collected 182 pounds of trash for every mile of shoreline, both ocean coastlines and beaches on inland lakes and streams, providing a 'global snapshot of the ocean trash problem.'" - excerpt from this MSNBC article.

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