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The Thames Is "Severely Polluted" With Plastic

The River Thames is "Severely Polluted" with Plastic River Thames Plastic pollution in the River Thames is reaching record-high levels, and things could get much worse. London's River Thames is full of secrets: home to   human teeth,   deadly   Amazonian Piranha , and " hyperactive " eels predisposed to swimming in high cocaine concentrations.   But are those somebody's gnashes snarling from below Tower Bridge — or bottle caps? Tight on its belt, the Thames exposes its most deadly horrors. It isn't easy to miss. The  second-largest river  in the United Kingdom has a massive plastic problem, documented by a new  report .  Researchers noted that the London River has some of the world's highest confirmed plastic particles rates, which makes the Thames one of the worst plastic-polluted rivers on Earth. Continue...