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Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans Controlling Garbage and Plastic Wastes at Sea (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 80-80

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... Beach cleanups, for instance, are readily identifiable as interventions, however modest, against the consequences of a hazard. Each volunteer who bags a piece of marine debris is helping to reduce the hazard to wildlife, lessen aesthetic degradation of the beach, and reroute the pollutant into the shoreside waste management system.
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Key Terms

  • marine debris
  • vessel garbage
  • waste management
  • garbage management
  • hazard evolution

  • marine environment
  • sea grant
  • university sea
  • beach cleanup
  • beach cleanups


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