Sisyphus on the beach
(…) Mark Ward filters thousands of pounds of plastic out of Oregon’s beaches every year.
(…) It may be that filter-cleaning sand at the beach is akin to chipping away at a mountain, and that ocean currents can undo such work in one fell swoop, yet Ward retains a positive outlook. “I know we are not the solution to ocean plastics,” he admits. But he is extracting vast amounts of plastic from beaches nonetheless.
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