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Pristine sand was covered by old plastic toothbrushes, combs, shoes, belts and mouldings.

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Sam Gon, a Hawaiian conservationist, took me to one beach where 70 local volunteers were doing their best to remove tons of garbage. But as soon as it was cleaned, the waves dumped another mountain of rubbish.

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But when Sam and I dropped to our knees, I could see the surface of the beach was covered with millions of small plastic pellets, known as 'nurdles'.

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Plastic doesn't biodegrade. Instead it breaks down into ever smaller pieces. Among the grains of sand were billions of tiny plastic flecks, which the pounding of the sea was reducing in size.

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As I dug through the plastic, I realized the sandy beach was being transformed into a plastic beach. A chill went down my spine.

From the beaches of Hawaii to the seas around Britain, we are soiling our own nest. It was a shock to realize how much British beaches have changed.

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The

plastic we see on our beaches is just

a fraction of the plastic waste that is

clogging our oceans.

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The beaches I visited in Hawaii are being swamped by rubbish from

the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a vast accumulation of the world's

plastic debris floating in the Pacific Ocean.

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And it is not alone. Scientists believe that sea currents have created five vast swirling garbage patches in our oceans, including a huge one in the North Atlantic.

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Because tiny fragments of plastic in our oceans are so small and look like food, they are being gobbled up by small fish, which in turn are eaten by larger fish - which in turn are eaten by us.

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England has recently joined the growing number of countries which impose a tax on plastic bags,

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turquoise

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infinite

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grains of

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food

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mountain of

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sea

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single-use

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throw-away

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