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The 14 pages that link to Marine plastic pollution, each with the reason it gives.

• MicroplasticsNarrower topic: Microplastics are a small-particle component of the wider marine plastic pollution problem.

• Arabian SeaRelated: Coastal populations and shipping contribute waste whose movement and effects are difficult to track.

• PhotodegradationRelated: Photodegradation alters exposed debris but does not necessarily eliminate its pollution.

• Sea turtle conservationRelated: Turtles can ingest plastic or become entangled in debris.

• Municipal solid wasteRelated: Mismanaged municipal plastics can escape collection systems and reach waterways and seas.

• Hadal zoneRelated: Plastic has reached trenches, but its pathways and effects there remain uncertain.

• Wandering albatrossRelated: Plastic ingestion and entanglement are documented risks for wandering albatrosses.

• Gulf of ThailandRelated: Rivers and dense coastal populations carry plastic into the gulf.

• Oceanic zoneRelated: Currents carry plastic through offshore waters and into ocean gyres.

• ProcellariiformesRelated: Procellariiforms can ingest floating plastic while mistaking it for prey.

• Sargasso SeaRelated: Floating debris can collect in the same convergences that gather Sargassum.

• HalobatesRelated: Floating plastics create additional hard surfaces where Halobates eggs may be laid.

• Great Pacific Garbage PatchNarrower topic: The patch is a concentrated manifestation of this wider pollution problem.

• Starbuck IslandRelated: Ocean currents can deposit debris on remote shores such as Starbuck’s.