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Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

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Once upon a time, before marijuana became legal (or partly legal) in most of the U.S., the only plastic involved with a pot transaction might have been a small baggie and a disposable lighter. (Or, ...

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Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...