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EPA finds plastic trash contaminates 2 remote Hawaii beaches

by Associated Press
| July 21, 2020 1:03 PM

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has designated the waters of two remote beaches in Hawaii as contaminated by trash, forcing the state to address the persistent problem of plastic deposited on its coastlines by swirling Pacific Ocean currents.

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