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Its hard to explain how bad this problem is getting to people that don't live near the sea. If you're downcurrent anywhere in the world, your beaches are basically full of trash that gets replenished on a daily basis

It really pisses me off

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I just had my most glaring experience of this ever on a beach that is basically on the open sea - Coco beach in Dar Es Salaam on the Indian Ocean. Incredibly beautiful beach and the warmest ocean water I can remember. And just walking through a foot of water you are basically continually hit with plastic waste. So, sad.

With our current attitude that day's not far away when all our oceans will be dead, just like we killed our rivers, at least in my own country India. At least one country needs to put the biggest offender liable. Like having Plastic tax just like Carbon tax.

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