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More Than 400 Million Pieces of Plastic Found In the Cocos Keeling Islands, Home to Under 1000 People

By Sandy Parks · On May 24, 2019

From All Things Considered, on NPR comes this story of what a marine biologist found when she traveled to the remote islands of the Cocos Keeling Islands. Approximately 1,300 miles off the coast of Australia all this plastic floats in from elsewhere, not from the 600 people living in these islands. This is just a small amount of what is floating out there. Read More

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