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On a beach on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state, Liesl Clark and her children wandered across the white sand, bundled up in winter jackets and beanies, enjoying views of the mainland north of Seattle. Liesl’s son began building a fort with driftwood and grabbed what he thought, at first, was washed-up kelp. But it was a PVC pipe. And quickly they realized: The entire beach was covered with plastic, large and small, from a car bumper cover to minuscule balls of Styrofoam.
Clark soon called her friend, Rebecca Rockefeller. “You have to come with us,” she said. “You’re not gonna believe what we found.” The next day they collected bags of plastic trash. Spoons. Pens. Toys. Lighters. Food containers. Soda bottles. You name
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