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Summer camp fighting for a cleaner Bahamas

SCIENTISTS estimate that every square mile of ocean contains about 46,000 pieces of floating plastic. As an archipelagic nation situated within 90,000 square miles of water, The Bahamas should be particularly concerned about this debris statistic from the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. When calculated, that’s 4.14 billion pieces of plastic in our waters.

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