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Piper McDaniel, Mother Jones
Wed, 06/16/2021 - 3:00am

This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In Europe, beachgoers have grown accustomed to the dispiriting sight of plastic garbage strewn along shorelines. Indeed, 85 percent of the continent’s saltwater beaches and seas exceed pollution standards on marine litter.

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