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Sea & Coast - Summary
 

Summary

It is estimated:
  • Every day around 5 million items of waste are thrown overboard from ships.

  • Every year three times more rubbish is dumped into our oceans than the weight of fish caught.
  • Annually, 1 million seabirds and 100, turtles suffer cruel deaths from entanglement in, or ingestion of, plastics.





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