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Trail of plastic floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Motagua River, Guatemala, plastic pollution
Plastic pollution washed up on a beach in Dominican Republic
Motagua River, Guatemala, plastic pollution
A young monk seal on Laysan Island holds a plastic fragment in his mouth. Photo credits: Matthew Chauvin

A bird surrounded by ocean plastic on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. **Photo credits: Matthew Chauvin**
Plastic floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Plastic debris washed up from a river in Indonesia.
Plastic bottles floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Crate dating back to the 1977 from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, caught durign the Mega Expedition (2015).
Hard hat (1989) from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, caught during the Mega Expedition (2015)
Nintendo Gameboy piece (1995) from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, caught during the Mega Expedition (2015)
River plastic in Guatemala
River plastic in Guatemala
River pollution in Malaysia
Waste on a river bank, Myanmar, September 2016
Several million tons of plastic waste enter our oceans yearly. Rivers are widely believed to be the arteries that carry waste from land to the ocean. Plastic waste entering a river in Myanmar.
The crew retrieves a large ghostnet from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, November 2018.
Ghostnet hauled aboard during Mega Expedition 2015

1.6 million square kilometers, three times the size of France - Illustration (gif)
1.8 trillion pieces of plastic - Illustration (gif)
How plastic pollution travels up the food chain
The 5 ocean gyres, where currents converge forming a vortex for plastic to circulate in.

River Pollution Footage
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