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For years, marine biologists have called for a ban on plastics, having witnessed firsthand the devastating impact on marine life. However, their pleas largely fell on deaf ears, given how cheap ...

Candy wrappers. Balloons. Grocery bags. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 full garbage trucks worth of plastic gets dumped in the world's oceans. Scientists have long known that plastic waste is ...

Thousands to millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean annually, but where they end up is poorly understood. All animals can be reservoirs of plastic pollution, but to understand just how much ocean ...