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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (OCE-0842727) and the Hollis and Ermine Lovell Charitable Foundation. The authors thank Catherine Carmichael for help with lab analysis and the hundreds of students and staff on Sea Education Association classes W–119 through C–213 that sailed south from Cape Cod and sampled plastics.
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