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Jordan, J., & Jordan, S. (2010). //See-the-sea//. Retrieved from [] Facts >
 * 1) Marine garbage is the most visible and easily recognized of all ocean pollution and causes serious damage to marine wildlife.
 * 2) The small personal pieces of garbage, casually discarded, are often the most damaging
 * 3) This party balloon, ribbon still attached, was found to be blocking the digestive tract of a male sperm whale at an autopsy.
 * 4) Some debris, like discarded commercial fishing nets, can continue to kill for decades as the trapped animals attract predators, which can then become entangled themselves
 * 5) Some of the debris reaches the ocean bottom where it can suffocate immobile plants and animals, producing areas essentially devoid of life.
 * 6) The garbage being moved along by the global current conveyor system poses other more insidious problems than entanglement and digestive problems.
 * 7) Marine debris has direct negative consequences for humans. Sometimes marine garbage can cause health risks for people because it can carry toxic chemicals or infectious diseases.
 * 8) There are also many examples of great losses to our economy. In 1988, the potential health hazards of medically related debris as well as high bacterial counts caused extensive beach closures along the northeastern coast of the United States.
 * 9) What many people do not realize is that this widely publicized summer of 1988 was not a result of one near-shore illegal dumping.
 * 10) All of it was then flushed into the sea following heavy rains. That summer also had persistent south-southwest winds that collected the floating debris and pushed it to the shore areas.