His family fished for generations. Now he’s hauling plastic out of the sea.
8/31/22
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from The Washington Post,
8/31/22:
It was Lefteris Arapakis’s first expedition on a fishing boat, and he didn’t expect what the nets would pull up.
There were scorpionfish, red mullet and sea bream. But there was also a bright red can of Coke.
He was still staring at the can when a fisherman grabbed it out of his hand and tossed it back into the water.
“That’s not what we’re paid to catch,” Arapakis recalled the fisherman saying.
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