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A report by the Ocean Conservancy catalogues nearly 7.2 million items that were collected by volunteers on a single day last September as
\nthey combed beaches and shorelines in 76 countries from Bahrain to Bangladesh.<\/p>\n

"This is a snapshot of one day, one moment in time, but it serves as a powerful reminder of our carelessness and how our disparate and random actions actually have a collective and global impact," news agency AP quoted Vikki Spruill, president of the Ocean Conservancy, as saying.<\/p>\n

The most extensive cleanup was in the United States where 190,000 volunteers covered over 16,000 kilometres, the report said.<\/p>\n

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