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in oceans’ most remote amount entering oceans
location, 10 daily, 58
scope of problem, 10–11 amount produced by cruise
from seagoing vessels, ships, 33
14–15 removing, 58–59
wildlife ingestion of, 17–19 as threat to coral reefs,
Plastiki (plastic boat), 18 49–50
Point Nemo (Oceanic Pole of Sheppard, Charles, 52
Inaccessibility), 10 Slat, Boyan, 54–55
St. Lawrence Estuary
recycling, plastic, 11–12 (Canada), 36–37
Rotjan, Randi, 50 Stumpf, Richard, 40
rubber ducks, 14 SurfCleaner, 59
Russell, Janet, 30
Ryan, Peter, 14–15 Tournadre, Jean, 33
trash, in lowest place in ocean,
Sanchi (oil tanker), 21, 22 6
sanitation, basic, number Trash Free Seas Program, 20
of people globally without Trego, Kirsten, 29
access to, 59 Trump, Donald, 61
Schmidt, Christian, 12–13 Turn the Tide on Plastic
Scholz, Nathaniel, 41 (yacht), 10
Science Advances (journal), Twenty Thousand Leagues
12 Under the Sea (Verne), 10
seagoing vessels
international accord to United Nations, 35
reduce pollution from, United Nations University
62–63 Institute for Water,
noise pollution from, 44 Environment and Health, 48
oil spills from, 8
plastics discarded by, 14– Veron, J.E.N., 43
15 Vescovo, Victor, 6
pollution from, 32–33
sea otters, 28, 28–29 Washington Post (newspaper),
sewage, 34, 41, 49, 63 18
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