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02/17/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Seafood lovers are eating 11,000 plastic fragments each year

Plastic waste has been accumulating in the oceans since as far back as the 1920s; just a few years after Leo Baekeland accidentally invented the first type of plastic called bakelite, back in 1907. The use of plastic exploded in the 1950s, and scientists began documenting the problem of plastic pollution in the oceans as […]

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