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How Loch Long became a magnet for Scotland's plastic waste

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About 62,000 items wash up on the beach each year , much of it from the waterways in Glasgow .

11% of the rubbish which enters the River Clyde and its tributaries is eventually washed up at Arrochar .

Campaigners say the only solution is to stop the waste entering the water in the first place.

A deposit return scheme has been successfully launched in the Republic of Ireland which captured almost a billion items in its first year .

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semi-formal

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English

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