A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required (IMAGE)

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A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required

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A handful of microplastics washed ashore at Kamilo Beach, Hawaii.

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The 5 Gyres Institute, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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