Since seeing the film “A Plastic Ocean” on Sept. 23, the visual images of what is happening in our ocean continue to come to mind. I hope everyone will have an opportunity to see this powerful film because it speaks to the absolute need to reduce the use of plastics and to support all efforts on LBI and beyond to do so. Those of you with Netflix can watch it at home for just $2, I am told, and I urge you to do so.
Plastic production in our country was estimated to be more than 300 million tons in 2015.
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