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    Face masks are increasingly being washed up on British beaches.
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    PPE litter washing up on British beaches due to coronavirus pandemic

    An adder on burnt heathland Elstead Common. © Surrey Wildlife Trust
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    The Wildlife Trusts report devastation as visitors flock to reserves

    Harbour porpoise ready for postmortem at ZSL (c) CSIP-ZSL
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    Young porpoises in the UK are ingesting toxic milk

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    11 tonnes of litter removed from British beaches

    UK shoppers buy a whopping 54 of these 'bags for life' a year on average. © Martin Poole/Getty
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    ‘Bags for life’ exacerbating the plastic problem

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    Majority of litter in the River Thames is single-use

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    36,000kg of plastic waste picked by volunteers

    Workers help remove oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a laughing gull at the Mississippi Wildlife Response Center in Gulfport, Mississippi, on West Ship Island in Mississippi on Saturday, July 3, 2010. (James Edward Bates/Biloxi Sun-Herald/MCT)
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    Why is oil so bad for birds’ feathers?

    Marine pollution, mainly made up of plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in Hinnavaru Harbour, Maldives, Indian Ocean.
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    Hundreds of marine Asian species have been hitching a ride on rafts of marine debris

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