977,000 Shoes and 373,000 Toothbrushes Found Among 262 Tons of Plastic Debris on Remote Cocos Islands

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By Olivia RosaneMay 17, 2019, 8:04 am232 pts
There are only around 600 people living on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean. But their beaches are littered with 414 million pieces of plastic. None That's the calculation of a paper published in Scientific Reports Thursday. Its findings suggest the world has "drastically underestimated" the…

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