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TUNE IN: @SenatorCarper gives opening remarks at EPW hearing to see how we can help save ecosystems and marine life from the growing threat of garbage pollution in our oceanshttps://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2018/9/cleaning-up-the-oceans-how-to-reduce-the-impact-of-man-made-trash-on-the-environment-wildlife-and-human-health …
Last Saturday, I participated in the Annual Delaware Coastal Cleanup – which last year collected 3.8 tons of trash – in just one single weekend of picking up trash along our 97 mile coastline -@SenatorCarperpic.twitter.com/6UFRyaq2cM
The figures in Delaware pale in comparison to the amount of trash in our oceans. The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” – the largest mass of marine debris in the ocean – is over 300 times the size of Delaware and nearly the size of Alaska -@SenatorCarperhttps://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/ocean-plastic-patch-south-pacific-spd/ …
As you know, all of this debris has serious impacts on water quality, wildlife and our food chain. Plastic consumption can harm wildlife in all stages of life, and recent research suggests that it can also decrease reproduction rates -@SenatorCarper
As co-chair and co-founder of the bipartisan Senate Recycling Caucus – along with my Republican partner @JohnBoozman – I want to mention recycling as one solution. As Governor, I signed two executive orders that improved and promoted recycling efforts in Delaware. -@SenatorCarper
We, as a nation, will need to invest in better waste management and recycling infrastructure to address challenges like this. We will also need to find a creative way to finance these investments -@SenatorCarper
I am encouraged by the strong bipartisan leadership @SenWhitehouse, @SenDanSullivan and others have shown on ways to solve the issue of marine debris in our oceans. With their continued resolve, I believe we can put our heads together and make a real difference -@SenatorCarper
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