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Here scientists advocate for the better design of plastics to encourage recycling, and prevent wasteful single-use containers finding their way into the oceans, where they break up into small pieces and are swallowed by marine animals. This could be as effective as a ban on microbeads, proposed by green campaigners as a way of dealing with the rising levels of microplastic waste - tiny pieces of near-indestructible plastic materials - that are harming marine life. [Source: The Guardian]
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