Copenhagen, Nov 7, 2024 (AFP) - Wooden bricks set to sea off Denmark to track plastic waste

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2024-11-07

Some 500 wooden bricks were dropped into the waters of Lemvig in northwest Denmark on Thursday for a project aimed at mapping how rubbish moves about in the world's seas. Hundreds of students, aged six to 19, lined up on a red carpet-lined jetty to ceremoniously throw the blocks of wood into the cold dark water. In collaboration with other research initiatives around the North Sea, the initiative hopes to identify the movements of floating plasti......

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