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OTA warning on wastes in coastal waters. (Office of Technology Assessment)
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May 16, 1987
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OTA warning on wastes in coastal waters
The "garbage barge,' which has beensearching for a landfill to dump 3,100 tons of trash since it left Islip, N.Y., on March 22, has become a pungent symbol of the U.S. waste disposal problem. This problem is not limited to land-based disposal sites. Wastes are channeled into the marine environment as well, and some of the country's estuaries and coastal waters, which are especially vulnerable to marine pollution, have suffered.
"We have enough information to concludethat waste disposal activities are a major contributing source' of a wide range of problems for the marine environment --including millions of dollars of losses in ...
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