Ubiquitous in our daily lives for years, plastic has also become ubiquitous in our environment. You can see plastic bottles, bags, straws, and more washing up on our shores and floating in our rivers, lakes, and streams. And that's just the plastic you can see. Plastic is made to last forever, and it does. Yet 33% of all plastic is used once and thrown away. Plastic doesn't biodegrade, it just breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. The toxic chemicals that leach out of plastic get into…
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