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Beaches flooded with plastic after new loss of Maersk containers

The Maersk-chartered ship Toconao lost six containers in the sea off the Spanish coast in December, the group confirms.
The loss of containers means that small plastic pellets have washed up on the coast of Galicia. | Photo: Miguel Vidal/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
The loss of containers means that small plastic pellets have washed up on the coast of Galicia. | Photo: Miguel Vidal/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
by DANIEL LOGAN BERG-MUNCH

Beaches in northern Spain are littered with small plastic pellets from a Maersk container that fell into the water in December.

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