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A man among plastic waste. Source: The Sun, UK – Image: 2024 By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | February 26, 2024 (IDN) — Environmentalists are worried. Plastics, tons of them, are produced every year, but 70 percent of them end up in landfills or are burned. Several studies have predicted that by the middle of the 21st century, there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans. In Ghana, some of the effects of ocean pollution are already visible as fishermen catch more plastic than fish. “For several years now, whenever we cast our nets,…