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On the recordMarch 21, 2018
So my pitch to you is that, as you are considering our trade relationship with those countries, that you consider the advantage they are securing for themselves by failing to invest in adequate upland waste-management infrastructure and that we then face the consequences of all the plastic junk that piles up in our oceans and along our shores.
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Dan Sullivan
Republican · Alaska

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Sullivan urges consideration of trade impacts on waste management and ocean pollution.

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