The great Australian garbage map: 75% of beach rubbish made of plastic
by Graham Readfearn and Andy Ball from Environment | The Guardian on (#3MZWN)
Data compiled from rubbish collected by volunteers aims to encourage industry to control plastic pollution at the source
Australians are battling against a tide of millions of pieces of discarded plastic debris at beach clean-up events all across the continent, according to two years of data analysed by Guardian Australia.
Some 2,651,613 pieces of debris were collected from beaches and recorded in a database during 2016 and 2017, with about three-quarters of items made from plastics.
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