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The plastic we use unthinkingly every day is killing our planet – and slowly but surely killing us | Andrew Paris

As researchers, we have been shocked to find the most remote depths of the Pacific Ocean polluted by our plastic. And it will outlive us all.
‘We are discovering that the very plastics we use to preserve our food are the same ones that are contaminating it.’ Photograph: Justin Hofman/Greenpeace/PA

Another bottle. Yet another one. We are 200km from land, in the middle of the South Pacific, and this is the third bottle we’ve found already this morning.

Everywhere is plastic.

The plastic we use unthinkingly every single day, the plastic we throw away without a moment’s thought, it lives on, and on. Out here. Where it is killing our planet, killing our sea life, and, slowly but surely, killing us.

I am here as part of a team of researchers from

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