Indy editor’s note: The Indy will from time to time re-publish articles from The Guardian using the Guardian’s  Open Platform.  For a related article in the Guardian, Microplastics Found In Human Lungs For First Time,  look here.   In the coming weeks the Indy will run a series of stories looking at how communities have confronted the environmental hazard posed by plastics. 

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