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Rubbish at sea not only threatens shipping and marine life, but has the potential to cause severe harm to people, reports Yang Yang

Since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing in the early hours of March 8, teams of rescue workers have been frantically searching large swaths of deep ocean to locate the Beijing-bound Boeing 777-200.

However, so far their efforts have been fruitless. On March 26, Malaysian authorities announced that satellite images suggested 122 objects - ranging from 1 meter to 23 meters in length - floating in an area of 400 square kilometers could be connected to the missing jetliner. The objects were later discovered to be unrelated floating debris.