Marine plastic pollution
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marine-plastic-pollution-173-3807220
title:
Marine plastic pollution
text:
Marine plastic pollution is a type of marine pollution by plastics, ranging in size from large original material such as bottles and bags, down to microplastics formed from the fragmentation of plastic material. Marine debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean. Eighty percent of marine debris is plastic. Microplastics and nanoplastics result from the breakdown or photodegradation of plastic waste in surface waters, rivers or oceans. Recently, scientis
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Environmental pollution by plastics
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_plastic_pollution
date created:
2008-03-15T22:48:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T03:25:48Z
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