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guys this week it's a great episode. I had the honor to be able to watch a new film.

It'll be coming out online. It'll be available starting January 20th.

It's called a plastic ocean,

and it does an incredible job

showing the real problem that is plastic in our waterways and all of the downstream effects of that.

This week I get to chat with Joe Ruxston.

She's a producer of the film A Plastic Ocean, but she's also the director of education for the foundation

that goes along with it, Plastic Oceans. You can learn more about it at plastic oceans.org.

She's got an incredible background in production working for Blue Planet and doing a lot of kind of filming underwater.

But now she's the co-founder of Plastic Oceans Foundation.

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