Plastic materials in the ocean pose problems for wildlife among other environmental issues. The amount of plastic in the ocean is increasing, and measures are being implemented in various communities in an effort to reduce the input. These are sometimes questioned as to efficacy and whether they will make any difference. This project will study this problem, particularly where plastics come from, using data from a comprehensive study published in Science Magazine in $2015.$

You will be assigned teams of $3$ or $4.$ Each team member will be responsible for analyzing some data, with comprehensive analysis by the whole group. Team members who do not contribute substantially in their groups can be replaced, and team members who are in poorly performing groups may move to other groups.

Important programming information: You must use the techniques taught up to this point in the course to solve this project. No loops or conditionals statements may be used for this project. $($No credit will be given for code using them$)$ Perform the following analysis in a single MATLAB script file$($one per team member$)$ named $$Project$\_1\_$Firstname$\_$Lastname.m $.$ Each member must write their own code, and team member$$s codes may not be identical. The team must work together to divide the work and to complete the final analysis. In all cases except where noted Matlab must do the computations and analysis $$ Values may not be hard coded into the code. The exception to this is the names of the countries, which may be written into the code after the code determines the country by number. Use comment statements to separate parts of the code, and suppress all output to the command window except the required output.