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Drowning in Plastic; Sailing Amid Ocean Litter
Sunday, January 25, 2015 15:08
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Drowning in plastic. It will be difficult to explain to future generations how and why humanity decided to use the planet’s oceans as a dustbin for plastic, a material known for its durability. Perhaps we thought it magically evaporated.
‘Fifty miles out we could smell the pollution’: sailing amid the ocean litter. For the majority of landlubbers, the fact that the world’s oceans are clogging up with the detritus of a rampant consumer society can easily be ignored. For most, the watery expanses beyond our coastlines might just as well be another planet.
