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Tagged bottles reveal the path of plastic through the ocean

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Lead author of the study Emily Duncan releases a tagged bottle into the Ganges river

The more we know about the problem of plastic pollution, the better we’ll be able to intervene and clean up, or even prevent, the mess. That includes understanding the way it moves through the marine environment, and a new study has shed further light on this process through the use of tagged plastic bottles. The bottles were dropped in the Ganges river and some ended up thousands of kilometers away.

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