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Maltese cargo ship bound for PERC dumps plastic in Penobscot BayCommunity rallies around cleanup effort
By Fran Gonzalez | Dec 15, 2020
Photo by: Fran Gonzalez Gary Allen of Bar Harbor picks up bits of plastic from the shores of Sears Island Dec. 10. He played music from his portable sound system to make the work fun.
Searsport An unknown amount of plastic debris from a Maltese cargo ship spilled into Penobscot Bay in late November, and shreds of the loose material have been washing ashore on Sears Island this week.
Approximately 10,000 metric tons of a plastic mixture arrived from Northern Ireland aboard the Malta-registered 447-foot cargo ship MV