Jenna Jambeck, an environment engineering professor at the University of Georgia, holds a shopping bag filled with plastic trash from the ocean, right, and a plastic baggie with trash collected last fall from a clean up at Panama Beach, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015. Each year about 8.8 million tons of plastic ends up in the world oceans, a quantity much higher than previous estimates, according to a new study that tracked marine debris from its source.
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