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Nature and Environment

Plastic pirates

November 17, 2016

These environmental buccaneers aren't after gold – they’re school children who hunt for plastic waste, cleaning rivers and beaches on Germany’s North Sea coast, and collecting data for scientific studies as they go

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Symbolbild Verschmutzung der Meere
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The plastic pirates