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    Marine debris, also known as marine litter, is human-created solid material that has deliberately or accidentally been released in seas or the ocean....
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  • and recreational boaters. Marine debris is also called litter or flotsam and jetsam. Objects that can constitute marine debris include used automobile tires...
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    plastic material. Marine debris is mainly discarded human rubbish which floats on, or is suspended in the ocean. Eighty percent of marine debris is plastic....
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    potentially, deep sea mining. The types of marine pollution can be grouped as pollution from marine debris, plastic pollution, including microplastics...
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  • There are three primary forms: atmospheric particulate matter, marine debris, and space debris. Some particles are released directly from a specific source...
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    Great Pacific garbage patch (category Marine garbage patches)
    vortex and North Pacific garbage patch) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly...
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    area was to be completed around May 2015. On 29 July 2015, a piece of marine debris, later confirmed to be a flaperon from Flight 370, was found on Réunion...
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    Coast (section Marine debris)
    coastal flooding. Other coastal issues, such as marine pollution, marine debris, coastal development, and marine ecosystem destruction, further complicate the...
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    A garbage patch is a gyre of marine debris particles caused by the effects of ocean currents and increasing plastic pollution by human populations. These...
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    marine debris. Using technological or mechanical innovations such as marine debris-clearing drones can further serve to reduce the amount of debris within...
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