Fighting the plastic plague in our oceans

The Ecologist
Feb 13, 2015, 11:59 am39 pts
On current trends the world will contain 33 billion tonnes of plastic by 20150, writes Mae Wan Ho, and much of it will litter the oceans, concentrating toxins and damaging marine life throughout the food chain. The alternative is to classify the most toxic plastics as 'hazardous waste', and for all plastics to…

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