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On the recordJuly 24, 2017
Sure. But from the land-based trash, is this--are these landfills that are along the coastline and trash that ends up in the ocean, or is this the dumping of land-based trash into the ocean?
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii
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Senator Schatz inquires about the origins of land-based trash.

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