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Tough Truths About Plastic Pollution

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Topics

Art, Bags, Material, Ocean Pollution, Plastic Pollution

Audiences

Activists, Consumers, Students

Type

Film

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In this TED Talk, Visual Artist Dianna Cohen, Co-Founder and CEO of Plastic Pollution Coalition, shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in the ocean and in our lives — and some thoughts on how to free ourselves from the plastic gyre.

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