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"Plastic pollution cuts into fishers’ livelihoods in Ecuador and Peru"
Mongabay Environmental News · Plastic pollution cuts into fishers’ livelihoods in Ecuador and PeruPlastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water pumps get clogged with debris, and boats collide with bags of trash. Until recently, research on plastics in the oceans has focused on the impacts on biodiversity, but a group of scientists has now studied the economic […]