In Greece's Aegean Sea, Divers Find "Gulf of Plastic Corals"

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Volunteer divers of the environmental group Aegean Rebreath swim next to ghost nets, off the island of Salamina, Greece, June 30, 2019. Like colourful corals, they swayed in the underwater current. Only these were not gorgeous natural reefs built up over centuries but plastic bags, stuck to the golden Aegean seabed since a landfill crumbled into the water eight years ago. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

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A volunteer diver of the environmental group Aegean Rebreath gathers waste from the bottom of the sea, off the island of Andros, Greece, July 20, 2019. Picture taken July 20, 2019. Thousands of plastic bags were pulled from the sea off Greece's Andros island this month by a team of divers and environmentalists who described what they found as a "gulf full of plastic corals." REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

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A volunteer diver of the environmental group Aegean Rebreath swims among to ghost nets, off the island of Salamina, Greece, June 30, 2019. Seas polluted with plastic have become one of the most shocking symbols worldwide of mankind's damage to the planet. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

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A volunteer diver of the environmental group Aegean Rebreath uses balloons to lift ghost nets from the bottom of the sea, off the island of Salamina, Greece, June 30, 2019. The Mediterranean is among the seas with the highest levels of plastic pollution in the world, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said in a report in June. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

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A volunteer diver of the environmental group Aegean Rebreath swims next to ghost nets, off the island of Salamina, Greece, June 30, 2019. Greece produces about 700,000 tonnes of plastic waste a year, or about 68 kilos per person, it said. About 11,500 tonnes end up in its seas every year, and almost 70% of that returns to its coastline, one of the longest in the world. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

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A volunteer diver of the environmental group Aegean Rebreath swims next to ghost nets, off the island of Andros, Greece, July 20, 2019. Picture taken July 20, 2019. The sea pollution off Andros is thought to date back to 2011, when heavy rain caused an informal waste disposal site to collapse, with most of the materials tumbling into the sea. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas

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