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This plastic pollution is getting into the food chain and they ultimately affect our health. >> reporter: and it's affecting the animals? >> absolutely. roughly 660 species today and that's a conservative estimate. what's insidious about it the plastic in the ocean doesn't disappear. it acts as a sponge for contaminants. >> reporter: in the pacific alone, noaa said massive patches of plastic swirl about. there are laws that prohibit dumping blass ticks in the ocean. the problem is enforcement. governments need to do more on cracking down on pollution. and the vast waters are difficult to polic...
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