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On the recordMay 1, 2024
It's almost impossible to get it out. If you think of floating bottles, people think we can get that out, but getting micro and the nano plastics out of the ocean, not doable.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley highlights the difficulty of removing micro and nano plastics from oceans.

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