Factoid/2016/04/19
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Plastics Dominate Beach Debris on Both Coasts
- "Plastics dominate the human-generated trash strewn along Washington’s coasts. One two-year survey of 17 coastal sites found that plastics formed 92 percent of marine debris..." and "Plastic represented nearly 71 percent of the debris collected, a percentage Clean Ocean Action’s Catie Tobin considers “alarming.”" - excerpts from articles in The Seattle Times and at New Jersey 101.5.
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