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July 10, 2011

Fish ingesting plastic waste, study finds.

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Fish ingesting plastic waste, study finds.
More than 250 million tons of plastic is produced around the world each year. About seven million tons of it ends up in the world’s oceans, according to some estimates. Now, researchers have put a figure on how much of that plastic is swallowed by fish that dwell in the northern Pacific Ocean: somewhere between 12,000 and 24,000 tons a year.
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