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Scientists find 38 million pieces of trash on Pacific island

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 11:31 in Earth & Climate

When researchers travelled to a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they were astonished to find an estimated 38 million pieces of trash washed up on the beaches.

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