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The Mermaids' Tears: Oceans of Plastic

  • Documentary

May 21, 2009 (FR)

0h 54m

Every km of ocean now contains an average of 74,000 pieces of plastic. A 'plastic soup' of waste, killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year and leaching chemicals slowly up the food chain. In Holland, scientists found plastic in the stomachs of 95% of all fulmar birds. ...

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