Meet the guy swimming through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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By Catharine SmithJul 14, 2019, 7:20 am127 pts
This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Ben Lecomte is swimming through tons of plastic. Pieces of it have gotten stuck to his face. He’s passed abandoned fishing nets that tangle and kill wildlife. He’s held pieces of broken storage…

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