Plastic Debris (IMAGE)

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Plastic Debris

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Plastic debris on a remote Gulf of Alaska beach. Onshore debris can weather to microplastics, be eaten by local wildlife, or return to the water, where it can be transported long distances by ocean currents. Some of the plastics here arose from the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

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Chris Pallister/GoAK.org.

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