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Can We Actually Clean Up the Plastic Pollution Problem?

Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.

Can We Actually Clean Up the Plastic Pollution Problem?

Season 9 Episode 17 | 15m 15s | CC

There hasn’t been enough talk about the **ridiculously unthinkable scale of the ocean plastic pollution problem** or how it intersects with other environmental issues like climate change. And here’s a big spoiler alert: Nearly all environmental scientists agree that ocean plastic pollution isn’t a problem we can clean our way out of. So what CAN we do? That’s what this video is about.

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