Plastic bags made up more than 9 percent of the 103 million items of rubbish collected by volunteers for the International Coastal Cleanup from 1989 to 2007, the study said. Only cigarettes and their filters constituted a bigger proportion of waste. “Thin film, single-use plastic bags which choke marine life should be banned or phased-out rapidly everywhere,” [program director Achim] Steiner said. “There is simply zero justification for manufacturing them anymore, anywhere.”
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