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Alice Carnevali

From plastics to sunscreen: The growing battle to tackle ocean pollution | Euronews Tech Talks

On March 18, 1967, the supertanker SS Torrey Canyon struck a reef off the coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom, spilling 100,000 tonnes of crude oil into the English Channel. 

Beaches in southern England, the French region of Brittany, and Guernsey in the Channel Islands were submerged in thick sludge. 

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