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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on June 19th,

2019. I'm Steve Murski. On June 6th, Scientific American Nature Research

and California Congressman Jerry McNerney hosted our third Science on the Hill event. This edition

focused on solving the problem of plastic waste. And what you'll hear now is an edited version of the hour-long panel

discussion with experts and Representative McNerney, who holds a doctorate in mathematics.

The event was moderated by our editor-in-chief, Mariette de Christina, and it looked at plastics

and microplastics and offered some important info about the legendary Great Pacific

Garbage Patch. Here's Mariette de Christina. I'm delighted to welcome you to our third

Science on the Hill, which we're so happy to work with Representative Jerry McNerney on,

to help bring conversations around scientific topics

to the halls of the Rayburn Building.

And I'm deeply indebted to Representative McNerney,

who wrote to me, well, it's a year and a half ago now,

something like that, saying, you know,

you'd been a reader of Scientific American,

and could we possibly work together on a fun way to bring these

conversations to you? And here we are with our third one. The first one was on new energy

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