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Plastic: A load of rubbish

Donika Deneva
January 5, 2022

It's everywhere. Hundreds of millions of tons are produced each year and plastic is in countless products and packaging. And as we know it doesn't go away once it is discarded. The world is drowning in plastic trash.

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