California Coastal Commission marine debris overview

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2016 study on impacts of plastic pollution (plastic utensils ingestion)

Mallos, Nicholas, et al. “Using Expert Elicitation to Estimate the Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Marine Wildlife.” American Geophysical Union, Feb. 2016. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AGUOSHI43A..02M/abstract

United Nations marine pollutants facts and figures

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