Plastic in the Oceans: Sources and Solutions (11 of 13) (IMAGE)

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Plastic in the Oceans: Sources and Solutions (11 of 13)

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Plastic samples collected by Jenna Jambeck from Caleta de Famara coast, Canary Islands, Spain in Nov. 2014. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 13, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, Jenna R. Jambeck at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, and colleagues was titled, 'Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean.'

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[Credit: Malin Jacob]

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