marine debris
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human-created waste that has deliberately or accidentally been released in a lake, sea, ocean or waterway
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- waste
- Has part
- marine plastic pollution
- Image
- Pollution swan.jpg
- Said to be same as
- flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict
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- Commons category
- Marine debris
- physically interacts with
- ocean
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Encyclopedic overview
Marine debris washed up on a beach at Sharm el-Naga, Egypt Beach litter
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “marine debris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.