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Plastic Beads in the Ocean

All of our plastic stuff starts out as nurtles. They are these little plastic beads, and they get melted down into whatever. The other thing you might not realize is what goes the drain in our home is part of the problem too. It's like micro beads in your tooth paste or in your face wash. And then clothing fibres, is actually a lot of it. These kinds of tiny plastic beads and acrilic fibres, like from fleece jackets, are small enough to make it through the filters that clean our waste water. So when the cleaned waste water gets back in our environment, it's still got lots of plastic in it,. And it eventually all flows out into

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