Floating tsunami trash to be a decades-long headache

Monday, March 11, 2013 - 04:00 in Earth & Climate

The tsunami that ravaged northeast Japan in March 2011 created the biggest single dumping of rubbish, sweeping some five million tonnes of shattered buildings, cars, household goods and other rubble into the sea.

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