Los Angeles County has just signed a deal with a Dutch company to install a floating mechanical filter to collect trash flowing through a canal that runs through the city and into the sea. Host Marco Werman speaks with Chris Reddy, a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts about this latest effort to control the problem of micro plastics accumulating in the oceans.
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