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Plastic in the Pacific

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Imagine every person on earth had 100 pounds of plastic. That's how much new plastic will be manufactured in 2010. Sadly, much of that will end up in the ocean within a massive area dubbed the Pacific Garbage Patch. Can anything be done to clean it up?

Learn more about Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic in the environment and this video with the Producer's Notes.

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