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BBC Radio 4
Shared Planet - Ocean Plastics
27 minutes Posted Sep 30, 2014 at 3:30 am.
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Plastic litter has the knack of finding its way into the ocean. Unfortunately this means that seabirds that have, until relatively recently, been safe to assume that the objects floating on the surface are food are getting a stomach full of trash. Shared Planet finds out how bad the situation is for seabirds like the fulmar and the simple things we can do to reduce the problem.