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Beaches are full of trash [1]

Washington: The world's beaches and shores are anything but pristine. Volunteers scoured 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide and found 6 million pounds (3m kg) of debris from cigarette butts and food wrappers to abandoned fishing lines and plastic bags that threaten seabirds and marine mammals.

Publication Date: 
17/04/2008
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Beaches [3], Oceans and Seas [4], Waste Disposal [5], N C America [6]

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