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Science report: US should make less plastic to save oceans

FILE - This 2018 file photo provided by researcher Jenna Jambeck shows plastic baled for shipment at a materials recovery facility in the United States. America needs to rethink and reduce the way it generates plastics because so much of it is littering the oceans, the National Academy of Sciences recommends in a new report, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. (Jenna Jambeck via AP, File) FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2019, photo, plastic and other debris is seen on the beach on Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. America needs to rethink and reduce the way it generates plastics because so much of it is littering the oceans, the National Academy of Sciences recommends in a new report, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)