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QUITO, ECUADOR – Plastic bottles, sports balls, and what look like the wheels from a toy pram float down the San Pedro River that runs through Quito, Ecuador. They are on their way towards the Pacific Ocean, on a downstream journey repeated all over the world as plastic waste is flushed through rivers into theContinueContinue reading “Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts (BBC Future Planet)”