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Ban on plastic bags spreading worldwide

About 1 million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals die each year due to pollution caused by plastics in oceans. “If we continue like this, by 2050, we will have more plastic in the ocean than fish,” said Habib El-Habr, expert on marine litter working in Kenya.

As a result, Australia has begun major efforts to ban the use of plastic bags. Loca...