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James MacCleary, MP has written to the Chief Executive of Southern Water demanding urgent assurances for his constituents after the plastic ...

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Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column ...

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