Plastic pollution ‘can travel thousands of kilometres in just a few months’

Plastic pollution ‘can travel thousands of kilometres in just a few months’

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Plastic pollution can travel “thousands of kilometres in just a few months”, scientists have said.

Their findings, published in the journal Plos One, are based on data from GPS and satellite tags in 25 plastic bottles.

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