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Seabirds on B.C. coast eating bellyfuls of plastic: Vancouver Sun

Folks. Please stop throwing plastics overboard…

Seabirds eat everything from twine, candy wrappers and Styrofoam, and their stomach contents show there’s been a dramatic increase in plastic pollution off the Pacific Northwest coast in the last four decades, a new study suggests.

 Plastics in Seabirds survey 2012

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