California teen helps pull 50,000 golf balls from the ocean

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By Claire Elise ThompsonJan 21, 2019, 7:10 am111 pts
The average golf course slurps up more than 300,000 gallons of water per day, resorts are expensive and exclusive, and, let’s face it — the game is kind of boring. On top of all that, it seems coastal golf courses are contributing to our ocean plastics problem. California teen Alex Weber discovered tons of…

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