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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

INSANE: Ocean floor littered with plastic pollution csiro | Vintage Vibes

This debris collected off Lizard Island, North Queensland, is a small example of a bigger problem. (HANDOUT/AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE)

In 1997,  Captain Charles Moore was returning from a trans-Pacific race when he made a shocking discovery in a remote part of the ocean.

Before him was a truly gigantic, floating mass of mostly plastic waste he dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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